I hate when that happens, a lot of searches around the neovim ecosystem ends up with various replies that assume 96 layers of knowledge even before understanding what the solution is about.

after years of using my custom neovim config I honestly just transitioned to lazyvim and it removed so much maintenance time, I'm happy with it

lazy.nvim is a plugin manager. LazyVim is a Neovim configuration. Don’t confuse the two.