Is anybody else uncomfortable about the idea that an LSP client is now baked into the editor (as opposed to being a plugin)? Are there big performance gains to this approach?

While LSP is great, it basically came from nowhere in the last couple of years. My concern: what if something definitively better comes along in another couple years, and we're "stuck" with this baked into the editor?

For context, using ALE, I've been able to gracefully migrate my language-specific helpers from pre-LSP to post-LSP universes, over the years as LSP helpers have become definitively better and faster, one language at a time, all without needing to recompile or download a new binary.

I'm very open to the idea that I'm missing something obvious, because I have a lot of respect for neovim and neovim contributors. I understand that neovim is not trying to replace vim but evolve it. This feels like a move away from plugins and into monolith territory, which feels like a big step. Curious to hear other's thoughts.

To be clear, I'm not for or against this, I'm mostly curious about the reasoning / thinking behind this, if anybody has links I'd love to read them.