dope VS NeoVim_Essentials

Was in the same position as you, with basically no lua knowledge. You could take a look at my config, here, which I simplified from glepnir's skeleton. I also followed along https://github.com/LunarVim/Neovim-from-scratch and the accompanying videos to understand what was going on with the code. Took me about a weekend all in all to get to a state I was happy with. this resources is also very good, though takes a bit more lua/programming know how to understand.

I took inspiration from cosynvim. I have it such that the init.vim in each directory requires the other files in that directory, which basically loads them.

this is truly cool template https://github.com/glepnir/cosynvim

maybe you can try the cosynvim

I wish every vimer could have their own configuration instead of using some huge configuration. This is not the right way to use neovim I think. Most people don't have time to invest in neovim due to work or other reason, and recently I've found that many people are interested in my configuration glepnir/nvim . But it has too many of my personal habits and my own hacks. Some less experienced vimers have a hard time reading it. Combine these reasons. I removed some of my hacks and made Cosynvim. A neovim config template that you only need to install the plugin you want and configure some keys to quickly use neovim

I like this one to be my based https://github.com/Blovio/NeoVim_Essentials

When I migrated from vimscript to lua I based my config of https://github.com/Blovio/NeoVim_Essentials . It is truly minimal which is what i liked about it.