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Seemed interesting based on the amount of languages the editor supports on paper, but a quick trial showed that at least C# support is very, very barebones, even theoretical, as I couldn't get any kind of autocomplete to work, for example. After few minutes of usage Im unsure of what it provides aside from some syntax coloring. Maybe I did something wrong?

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You did not. Aside from Rust and Swift, all the added languages are preliminary. A minimal extension is required to, for example, connect Chime up to an LSP server to get semantic features going like completions and diagnostics. We do not have a 1st-party extension built for C# yet.

Why not implement first class support for LSP servers, and offer extensions that wrap official LSP's?

That's more or less exactly what we've done. Our SDK does have support for LSP. But, unfortunately those extensions still need to be made. Or are you talking about a generic LSP extension that is server-agnostic? That is definitely buildable, but my experience has been that the experience tends to be a lot better when customized for a particular server.

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