This is why I built nvim from source, and git pull plugins into the pack directory. I think it's even a static binary. Whatever changes I need I git pull. After they added LSP I have not wished for anything else really, so I stopped pulling. I think I pulled LSP completion API in 0.11 era but that's it.

Hate it when people break backwards compatibility. For me it's sacrosanct, more important than absolutely anything else.

I only have a handful of plugins so the system works well. And I have a 500 line init.vim (and no other config).

Some ecosystems like golang share this principle and so I can freely update packages without worrying about breakages. But other ecosystems(nvim, python, etc) I'm a lone warrior