I've used neovim for a couple years now, but had trouble using it professionally because package managers often break in certain environments like docker containers or remote servers. Rather than go with the graybeard option of using plain vim in unusual environments, I experimented with not using any package managers and just directly controlling the environment.

This worked surprisingly well, so I reworked my dotfiles into a shareable format - which is freak.nvim

Hope other vim appreciators enjoy =)