To be clear, I explicitly say that you shouldn't install each of those plugins. They're meant as an idea of whats out there. I'm sorry you've found the series superficial. Any thoughts on what would make it more useful?
http://benmccormick.org/2014/07/07/learning-vim-in-2014-work...
was ridiculous.
In "Buffer Management", you don't talk about :find or command-line completion or the wildmenu or the possibility to use mappings or the fact that one can use buffer names to navigate or tag-based navigation. And under "Plugins", the following sentence (and the mandatory list of plugins) is not really helping you to get your point across:
The good news is that Vim has solutions. They're just not baked into the Vim core.