2. Vim 8 added async support which, IMO was the "killer feature" of neovim. Built-in LSP is nice I guess, but LSP is often a bit of a pain to integrate with my workflow, and when I do, ALE (which I already use for linting) has me covered.

3. For more modern takes on modal editors, kakoune was by far my favorite; Helix had an impedance mismatch with how I edit text[A]

4. Lastly, vim and evil-mode are so similar that if/when I'm stuck in vim on a remote terminal, my muscle memory works great. With my configuration, literally the only difference (modulo C-z, which is the emacs escape-hatch) is case-matching replacement with "/" which evil-mode does and vim does not.

A: Though I must say thath when I brought them up to the community at the time, they seemed very open to addressing these issues; I had only positive interactions with the Helix community; people were super polite and nobody tried to YX problem me, which is unheard of in an IRC channel.