I too appreciate "native" plugins. I've even recompiled vim without support for Python, Ruby and Perl in an attempt to speed up startup (it starts a "great deal" faster, if I remember my tests correctly).

How much faster could it start? It's already instant.

For various definitions of "instant", I guess.

I move around a lot and I want my editor (and my shell, for that matter) to be ready the instant I hit enter.

So do I. Removing plugins and autoloads seems less cripling than recompile without python et al...