But does it matter? Nowadays even my editor wants to run a server in the background to provide syntax highlighting. People generally don't seem to care and see it as progress.
But what about the price of tea in China? The language servers you refer to provide a decoupled service to other programs. It has literally nothing to do with the fact that I have to (apparently—why would I even use SVN in this day and age) make a dummy repository somewhere hither or tither just so that I can version control my local-only dotfiles!
Or in serverless mode without any server at all. Just open the repository via file://.