What does this rather meaningless 'health' of Neovim gives to the end users? Fresh new bugs? > The fact that something is furiously developed by hundreds of developers is a very poor reason. Though I really do think nvim's development philosophy will lead to better results than Moolenaar's.

I love neovim, but the idea that 'most people use nvim' or 'vim is dying' is just wrong. That said, there are of course ways to set up fantastic tmux bindings, I just haven't. Of course, you can do this with vim and tmux, but sometimes it's nice that I can set up a binding for -t to open a terminal, or -p to open an ipython shell instead of using tmux's more cumbersome default bindings. A third one, which is perhaps the least valuable but is also the most user-facing, is that you can now open terminals within neovim. Another example, which I think is great, is that to support python extensions, nvim does not need to be recompiled.

For example, nvim has a decoupled back end, so ides could emulate vim without having to do emulation at all - they would literally just communicate with the neovim backend. The honest truth is that almost everyone will have the same exact experience in neovim as in vim, and that the differences right now (this could always change) are mostly for developers hoping to use vim in a creative way. But I would argue that its time has passed, as bright as that time was. That said, I appreciate NeoVim - if for nothing else - for prompting Bram to realize there are more usecases. Until that is no longer the case, NeoVim will have a hard time gaining traction outside of those who are already waving its flag. NeoVim can't even simply replace Vim as the default, since it works differently (the changed configuration path, for one), and no longer works on all of the platforms that operating systems are installed upon (even if intentionally). Not so long as Vim is installed by default, and holds the name Vim. Threads here imply that NeoVim has a lot more traction and capabilities than Vim, yet it might as well not exist for all that we don't hear about it.

Speaking solely as an outsider to the development of Vim, NeoVim, and Vim extensions - the only time I see references to NeoVim anymore is when someone else brings up regular Vim (and always includes the narrow-sighted rant of 'vim is obsolete, neovim is the future').

Macvim vs vimr