diff --git a/modules/default.nix b/modules/default.nix
index a2f8730d..a207e0d1 100644
--- a/modules/default.nix
+++ b/modules/default.nix
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@
   extraModules ? [],
   configuration ? {},
 }: let
-  inherit (pkgs) vimPlugins;
-  inherit (lib.strings) isString toString;
-  inherit (lib.lists) filter map concatLists;
+  inherit (lib.strings) toString;
+  inherit (lib.lists) concatLists;
 
   # import modules.nix with `check`, `pkgs` and `lib` as arguments
   # check can be disabled while calling this file is called
@@ -21,7 +20,12 @@
   # evaluate the extended library with the modules
   # optionally with any additional modules passed by the user
   module = lib.evalModules {
-    specialArgs = extraSpecialArgs // {modulesPath = toString ./.;};
+    specialArgs =
+      extraSpecialArgs
+      // {
+        inherit inputs;
+        modulesPath = toString ./.;
+      };
     modules = concatLists [
       nvimModules
       modules
@@ -36,102 +40,11 @@
         extraModules))
     ];
   };
-
-  # alias to the internal configuration
-  vimOptions = module.config.vim;
-
-  noBuildPlug = {pname, ...} @ attrs: let
-    src = inputs."plugin-${attrs.pname}";
-  in
-    {
-      version = src.shortRev or src.shortDirtyRev or "dirty";
-      outPath = src;
-      passthru.vimPlugin = false;
-    }
-    // attrs;
-
-  # build a vim plugin with the given name and arguments
-  # if the plugin is nvim-treesitter, warn the user to use buildTreesitterPlug
-  # instead
-  buildPlug = attrs: let
-    src = inputs."plugin-${attrs.pname}";
-  in
-    pkgs.vimUtils.buildVimPlugin (
-      {
-        version = src.shortRev or src.shortDirtyRev or "dirty";
-        inherit src;
-      }
-      // attrs
-    );
-
-  buildTreesitterPlug = grammars: vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (_: grammars);
-
-  pluginBuilders = {
-    nvim-treesitter = buildTreesitterPlug vimOptions.treesitter.grammars;
-    flutter-tools-patched = buildPlug {
-      pname = "flutter-tools";
-      patches = [../patches/flutter-tools.patch];
-    };
-  };
-
-  buildConfigPlugins = plugins:
-    map (
-      plug:
-        if (isString plug)
-        then pluginBuilders.${plug} or (noBuildPlug {pname = plug;})
-        else plug
-    ) (filter (f: f != null) plugins);
-
-  # built (or "normalized") plugins that are modified
-  builtStartPlugins = buildConfigPlugins vimOptions.startPlugins;
-  builtOptPlugins = map (package: package // {optional = true;}) (buildConfigPlugins vimOptions.optPlugins);
-
-  # additional Lua and Python3 packages, mapped to their respective functions
-  # to conform to the format mnw expects. end user should
-  # only ever need to pass a list of packages, which are modified
-  # here
-  extraLuaPackages = ps: map (x: ps.${x}) vimOptions.luaPackages;
-  extraPython3Packages = ps: map (x: ps.${x}) vimOptions.python3Packages;
-
-  # Wrap the user's desired (unwrapped) Neovim package with arguments that'll be used to
-  # generate a wrapped Neovim package.
-  neovim-wrapped = inputs.mnw.lib.wrap pkgs {
-    neovim = vimOptions.package;
-    plugins = builtStartPlugins ++ builtOptPlugins;
-    appName = "nvf";
-    extraBinPath = vimOptions.extraPackages;
-    initLua = vimOptions.builtLuaConfigRC;
-    luaFiles = vimOptions.extraLuaFiles;
-
-    inherit (vimOptions) viAlias vimAlias withRuby withNodeJs withPython3;
-    inherit extraLuaPackages extraPython3Packages;
-  };
-
-  dummyInit = pkgs.writeText "nvf-init.lua" vimOptions.builtLuaConfigRC;
-  # Additional helper scripts for printing and displaying nvf configuration
-  # in your commandline.
-  printConfig = pkgs.writers.writeDashBin "nvf-print-config" "cat ${dummyInit}";
-  printConfigPath = pkgs.writers.writeDashBin "nvf-print-config-path" "echo -n ${dummyInit}";
 in {
   inherit (module) options config;
   inherit (module._module.args) pkgs;
 
   # Expose wrapped neovim-package for userspace
   # or module consumption.
-  neovim = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
-    name = "nvf-with-helpers";
-    paths = [neovim-wrapped printConfig printConfigPath];
-    postBuild = "echo Helpers added";
-
-    # Allow evaluating vimOptions, i.e., config.vim from the packages' passthru
-    # attribute. For example, packages.x86_64-linux.neovim.passthru.neovimConfig
-    # will return the configuration in full.
-    passthru.neovimConfig = vimOptions;
-
-    meta =
-      neovim-wrapped.meta
-      // {
-        description = "Wrapped Neovim package with helper scripts to print the config (path)";
-      };
-  };
+  neovim = module.config.vim.build.finalPackage;
 }