[oblio]

Neovim was started pretty explicitly to be a community project. There's a main maintainer but there's no BDFL. Vim has Bram as BDFL.

I'd say that for (Neo)Vim, which is a mature project with a clear design, the BDFL approach is ok but there are risks, illustrated by the half decade where Vim stagnated. Neovim has a less risky approach to project management, I'd say.

Of course, we need to revisit this topic in a decade or so :-)