Sorry, I’m just not sure most of that is true anymore. How long ago was your experience? I remember bouncing off lsp-mode into eglot years ago as well for similar reasons, but nowadays it just seems totally different to me.
I’ve never used anything but xref in lsp-mode, I rely on xref a lot. I wasn’t even aware that lsp-mode has, or had, something bespoke there.
I use flymake, not flycheck, I don’t think I had to configure that.
projectile is just my personal preference because I'm used to it, the manual says it integrates with either project.el or projectile.
I remember the weird popups you mention from my first lsp-mode trial. I don’t know where they’re gone, nowadays it’s just text in the buffer. (But I don’t know whether that’s ElDoc or not.)
I’ve never used anything but xref in lsp-mode, I rely on xref a lot. I wasn’t even aware that lsp-mode has, or had, something bespoke there.
I use flymake, not flycheck, I don’t think I had to configure that.
projectile is just my personal preference because I'm used to it, the manual says it integrates with either project.el or projectile.
I remember the weird popups you mention from my first lsp-mode trial. I don’t know where they’re gone, nowadays it’s just text in the buffer. (But I don’t know whether that’s ElDoc or not.)