I would recommend getting started with lazyvim (lazyvim.org). Once you're comfortable with the editor, you can change the config to kickstart.nvim and start customizing it to your liking. That's what I did and I have no regrets. LazyVim allowed me to switch without sacrificing productivity. I was on it for a year before I decided to make my own config

>But the configuration is a whole new project in lua.

That part doesn't worry me. I am concerned about neovim not doing well in a copilot centric future though.

Claude is really good at writing these configurations.

I was able to make VSCode behave like EMacs with vibe coding.

Neovim with Lazy is really easy to vibe code too.