> how verbose it turned out

Verbose? The new plugin manager's interface is literature just vim.pack.add({url}), not sure what is verbose about that

If you want to replicate the lazy features then it will get verbose. Even using a dedicated plugin for lazy loading it's not as tight as lazy.nvim.

You may argue that you don't need lazy loading, which is fine, but they're not 1-to-1 compatible.