Looking through the issue queue I see quite a few issues relating to e.g. updating plug-ins form Syntastic to Ale, upgrading the tags which made me wonder as that doesn't feel like the Vim way where everything is configurable and you can build tags files etc and hack it together yourself.

I understand that this is a way of helping people towards getting a fully featured install together, but I think it would help if there were ways of using parts as well as the whole. Also, when people learn Vim there is a huge learning curve and providing simple through to complex set-ups might make it less overwhelming.

Maybe the time has come to move away from a monolith to a more distributed/lightweight approach? If there was less prescription regarding plugins I'd be more inclined to use the what's here, but as I'm already using nvim, ale, phpactor etc. some of the cool stuff here gets lost - like Drush integration, tags etc. as I'm immediately disinclined to use something that will make me change my working toolset.

Plan: use https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug and provide a set of init.vim/.vimrc that provide all of the functionality and split out e.g. drush integration into a separate project and call them in to provide a complete set of packages that you can pick and choose from and use vim-plug a bit like composer.

I'd be glad to help. And I offer this suggestion with humility and as someone that started off with this plug-in several years ago and used it as the basis for my setup for a long time!

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