Yes, but before that it was Packer, and the default neovim package manager, and there may have been something else that got completely forgotten in the meantime.
Who is folke and why is lazy.nvim better than other things?
Discussion
Folke has written a bunch of incredibly popular and well written plugins.
Lazy.nvim fixes a lot of the gripes people had with Packer. It doesn’t have all the long running bugs that never got fixed. The syntax for specifying plugins is much nicer with Lazy. But the best part is that Lazy.nvim is insanely fast. It caches and compiles the Lua code beforehand and makes lazy loading and dependencies extremely easy.
Good pitch, I might try that when I decide to get rid of my init.vim file and go full Lua.
What is wrong with vim-plug, though?