Can't stress enough how essential JJW's plugins are for me - both BrowserAssist & UIAssist are increasingly replacing VaM's native interface in my workflow.
They're faster, more versatile, A LOT more "human-friendly" to use, vastly customizeable, better search-functions ...
... if you've been annoyed beyond mere frustration by VaM's laggy, rigid, inflexible, feature-deprived native interface, then you need this.
If you don't think you need this, you're either not using VaM (though you might think you do), or you've become "numb to the pain" of using VaM's interface.
UIAssist was already very good, but Browser-Assist's development has quite simply been astonishing to behold - new features are added basically every fortnite, bugs are sorted out quicklly and JJW is quick to react to & incorporate feature-request.
Just over the last three weeks, I've watched a single feature request turn into what is basically a separate additional filemanager for local files (with treeview!!!) that represents local files both "flattened" AND within their actual location on disk. I'm still discovering just how many ways this supports my workflow.