Comment by mattgreenrocks

Being able to avoid OMZ and entire cargo cult of zsh configuration performance “hacks” that litter the internet.

Really, not needing to pull in other people’s janky scripts because the built-in features work well is huge. I still configure fish and use a few scripts, but it’s the lack of the massive cottage industry that is the primary draw for me.

Of course, many devs see that as a failing: “how could a shell do its job well without a thousand knobs to tweak?”