[thayne]

The success of Neovim is great example of the advantage of open source. When the developer of a popular piece of software didn't want to implement features some of it's users wanted, those users were able to fork it and create a successful project that had those features, and eventually led to more innovation in the original project.

The divergence and incompatibility is unfortunate though, especially since some of it just seems petty. Made moreso, because it isn't possible to truly polyfill functionality from one in the other (native commands and functions are effectively in a separate namespace than user-defined ones).