Ah, I guess that makes sense. Kate automatically detects available LSP server executables but then prompts you before starting them for the first time, in case you did not install that and it's malware, or I guess, in case you just placed a script there which happened to be called the same, but would be very bad to run.

Neovim could theoretically do that, too, but then you need a way to block executables, so that it stops prompting you every time, which you'd probably want in a separate config file.
So, it's definitely a simpler solution and perhaps moreso what one would expect from a TUI editor, for you to just list the ones to run in the config file.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Neovim has something better - there is a plugin that installs the servers for you - https://github.com/mason-org/mason.nvim - and then you can just use the servers that plugin has installed (which should be more trustworthy because you just need to trust the plugin and not some random executable)

There is also https://github.com/mason-org/mason-lspconfig.nvim which bridges the two and automatically enables servers that were installed via Mason.