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If you want a vim GUI, Onivim 2 is usable and doing a Vim GUI slightly differently (made libvim, and is doing the UI in Revery an OCAML offshoot). I've been using it a few hours each week to edit python/ts/js/md and it's worked surprisingly well. This also looks really good, and I'm happy to see next-gen vim get love.

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Oni looks nice, but is a non-free program with an EULA so I would rather not use it. However it also states that a release is relicensed under the MIT/X11 license after 12 months from its release.

Can you explain why I'm supposed to "pre-order" a license key for a Vim-like editor that doesn't yet support .vimrc files?

How is it better than this with NeoVim's LSP and treesitter support?

Onivim isn't trying to be a vim GUI, it is it's own product that is something like VS Code on top of libvim. They opted to go with the VS Code extension ecosystem which necessarily excluded vim extensions.

Not affiliated with the project, or even really a user, but bought a license a while ago to support what I still think is a nice idea.

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