I used Spacemacs for about five months before giving up on it. I don’t know any lisp at all and it made configuration difficult on top of the load time and inability (for me) to run it in my shell relegating me to the emacsclient. NeoVim has replaced Vim for me.
There are certainly things about VSCode, Atom, and some IDEs that are pretty impressive, but I’m one of those people that refuse to rely on too many plugins and/or crutches for the same reason I refuse to use GUIs. I’m just a retro guy 
Do you use/are you familiar with Vim-Polyglot? GitHub - vim-polyglot/vim-polyglot: A solid language pack for Vim. · GitHub
