Changed my mind to try 'lazy.nvim'. It seems to better support dependency handling and Lua plugins. Thank you for the replies!
OTOH, while I've been using Neovim with NvChad recently (since I didn't have time to do this before), I think I'll start from scratch and port the config I have for plain old Vim. I'll stick to 'vim-plug' on #vim.
My intention is to use #neovim as a proper dev environment with decent LSP and DAP support. As an early supporter, it makes me happy how far neovim has come.