I try to do this as well, with the notable exceptions of neovim, zsh, and tmux.
My zsh configuration, despite being quite large, has never broken in strange and hilarious ways when adopting a new version of zsh. The opposite is true for neovim, and to a lesser degree, tmux.
Nearly every time I install a neovim update, something breaks (often LSP-related). The devs don't seem to give a rat's ass about backwards compatibility.
They also introduce silly issues like this[1], which are innocuous but annoying, and are then super pissy with people trying to comment on the issue to add context/etc.
All this to say: I'm definitely in the market for a new editor that has better defaults. Having to ditch my vim muscle memory is non-ideal, though.