Sometimes people would like to have just a as-small-as-possible "classic" vi (like nvi, or vi included in FreeBSD) to just quickly run through bunch of config files in a [remote] terminal. So, vim-minimal works well for us.

I am not sure that libuv is what we need, and it seems like another "monster" to be born, like "modern" Emacs (which is "aware of" such a crap like gconfig).

  schiptsov@MSI-U270:~$ ldd /usr/local/bin/emacs |wc -l
  85

"Do not want" meme.)