The split of Vim and NeoVim was actually one of the reasons why I chose to switch to Emacs 2 years ago, after sticking with Vim for ~15 years.
Vim was great but the script language had always been too hard for me. NeoVim was getting a lot of development, but it was foreseeable that Vim & NeoVim would be completely incompatible someday, and I'd feel bad leaving the original Vim community for something that might eventually replace it. At that point I figured, if I have to switch, let's try something that's more stable and less likely to fork. Then I never looked back.
Vim was great but the script language had always been too hard for me. NeoVim was getting a lot of development, but it was foreseeable that Vim & NeoVim would be completely incompatible someday, and I'd feel bad leaving the original Vim community for something that might eventually replace it. At that point I figured, if I have to switch, let's try something that's more stable and less likely to fork. Then I never looked back.