>>And there are several Neovim distributions (LunarVim, Nvchad, etc.) that have all of the bells and whistles included.
Problem with distributions is as the contributions decrease they start becoming abandonware with time.
Leaving you with with vim and having to work through the configuration hell on the long term for yourself.
>>Again, Neovim gives you choices: you can configure and tweak it to your heart’s content
Trust me this is negative thing, not exactly something most programmers want. Most programmers don't enjoy configuring their IDE/Editors as a full time project together with your regular day job.
I agree with this. I spend most of my days on newly created systems (AWS EC2 instances) that are bone stock. I don't use any vim plugins at all because they wouldn't be the same everywhere and it's not worth configuring a system I'll only use for 2 hours. If I could get a full featured IDE installed by default on my systems I would ditch vim in a heartbeat.
You might want to look into Emacs with evil mode and TRAMP. TRAMP lets you remotely access files on a remote machine as if Emacs were running on that machine with all its IDE bells and whistles. It does require LSP programs and such to be on the remote side but you could probably script bootstrapping whatever you need fairly quickly. Certainly less setup than bringing over a whole editing environment with plugins, .vimrc, etc..
Problem with distributions is as the contributions decrease they start becoming abandonware with time.
Leaving you with with vim and having to work through the configuration hell on the long term for yourself.
>>Again, Neovim gives you choices: you can configure and tweak it to your heart’s content
Trust me this is negative thing, not exactly something most programmers want. Most programmers don't enjoy configuring their IDE/Editors as a full time project together with your regular day job.