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I had a C program that was a single file 140,000 lines long back then. No issues.

Vanilla vim sure, no problem. But try to add syntax highlighting and code completion plugins.

Ah yes, the "I've never had this problem so obviously no one else could have possibly had it" argument.

No it's more the "what the hell are people doing to make their lives difficult?" argument.

To be fair, they were just sharing their experience. I don’t recall them saying anything close to your interpretation.