I was neovim in the end, 100% agree lua is so much better than vimscript, but now I don't need either. I spend no time trying to match what an IDE can do in the terminal and get to spend that time building the things I'm actually interested in. I recalled Linus saying the reason he (at the time) used Fedora was because it just worked and he could spend his time on the kernel instead of tinkering to get linux working. This is one of the biggest reasons I stopped using (neo)vim

I had lots of problems with plugins in the ecosystem breaking, becoming incompatible with others, or often falling into unmaintained status. Integrations with external SaaS services are much better too

Also information density (and ease of access) as a peer comment has mentioned