oh-my-zsh has more than six hundred open pull requests, and can be considered unmaintained. It is perfectly usable in most respects, and I would not expect that to change in the near future. However, some competing projects have started because of that, and may be worth consideration.

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen See also: https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins

not my choice. certainly less people suffer bash in the BSD world.

while bashims may give additional features, readability and portability suffers. I much prefer scripts using a posixish #!/bin/sh and a strict subset of shell syntax. something like pdfx.

People should realize terminal and scripting don't need to be done using same shell.

I use fish for scripting but run zsh for terminal. (fish had couple weirdness in day to day terminal use and zsh could do pretty much all fish could do with zplug.)