[gradstudent]

> This is shallow and short-sided opinion. If neovim achieves goal of "easier to maintain codebase" then it will have much faster feature development, bug fixing, and extension development. All extremely user facing and exciting.

I think this is a bit naive. There's no plan of any kind laid out for NeoVim, not even a goal against which progress can be concretely measured. New and compelling features must be well thought-out, well designed and well executed; they don't just fall out of the sky as a consequence of "easier to maintain code".