neovim surround plugins require too many keystrokes
I’ve tried all the surround plugins but what I really want is just the simple flow of: make a selection -> press “, ( etc to surround.
Is that not possible with vim?
I would recommend just learning the default surround behavior since it's more versatile. For example surround -> text-object -> character, siw) (surround word in parentheses) can be repeated with . (dot).