Helix keeps things lean - and that's the point. It ships with LSP support, multi-cursor editing, and smart search baked in. No dotfile gymnastics required. That alone has peeled some loyalists off Vim and Neovim.
Still rough around the edges. No persistent undo. No auto-reload. Markdown support's a bit thin. And yeah, occasional crash landings. But for devs burned out on maintaining three dozen plugins just to write code? Helix feels like a deep exhale.
