The Deal-Breaker

vim.pack has no event/filetype/command-based lazy loading. None. You either load at startup or you manually call :packadd in your config yourself.

Oh, so it’s sane and doesn’t try to bullshit it’s way out of plugin authors’ incompetence?

I’m sold!

This reads like AI. But also doesn't touch on the problem of running setup functions and such being very different.

Just to add to it, there's a thin wrapper around it called zpack that's basically a drop-in replacement for lazy.

I'm not the dev, but I've migrated from lazy to it without much of a hassle, and the performance seems to be on par. I did encounter a bug, but the dev was quick to fix it. Just wanted to give them a shout-out.