Neovim

Not necessarily untrue, but you end up both with baggage you don’t need and worse yet, not understanding how you got what you do have.

Neovim all by itself is a very capable editor with no plugins at all. The reason you should know plugins is irrelevant, in my view. You should not need to know any, unless you want to do. And then the reason is just because you want it.

To each of their own needs of course. I don’t begrudge anybody their use of distros; I just don’t see them as optimal.