[openmarkand]

> The plugins are also very flashy with tons of animations, colors and emojis, which to me is just distracting

I also have seen that the very first time I tried neovim. Some people may like it but I consider a terminal to be as simple as possible. Furthermore, I use often the CLI on non-GUI terminals where such non-ASCII characters can have various side effects (e.g. unicode bars, braille like progress bar and so on, those destroy your serial terminal line).