I work as a JS Dev on a large(ish) React project with Vim, so I realised I did want modern facilities such as Coc.nvim and denite.nvim which are my two weaknesses. I tried using `set wildmenu` for a while but I found it difficult to use compared with my denite leader+r using rg.
Other than that I have four Tim Pope plugins (vinegar, fugitive, surround, and commentary). Fugitive I could live without as I rarely use it but I could not live without surround - I'd say it's my most useful plugin and doing the same in Vim was awkward.
I've noticed similar pattern with other tools, e.g. git. I've seen coworkers add all kinds off aliases to simplify git commands, and I'm very much against it since I prefer portability.
Admittedly, it does get annoying when I'm sudo-ed to another user, but it's vanishingly rare for me that I am both sudo-ed to another user, and doing enough editing that I really want those configs. Usually a sudo-ed vi for me is just updating a couple lines in a config, I don't need a full config for that