I'm inclined to like spacemacs, but I'm not a fan of Ido, and I find it pretty offputting to drop into ido-dired when I type C-x d. Is there a recommended way of preventing this?
In dotspacemacs/user-config I've added (ido-mode 0). It's a pretty blunt instrument, but it seems to be doing the trick. I'll keep poking; perhaps there's a nice way of preventing ido from being loaded in the first place.