There's also the rumor that Terminal in macOS has had a handful of developers working on it, at best, over the years. I would bet money that Apple doesn't care enough about it to bother with telemetry and/or privacy policies for it.
Fwiw I never bothered with iTerm, Terminal is good enough for me. It even supports some old school vt100 stuff like double width and height fonts. It's one of the better vt100 compatible ones.
> There's also the rumor that Terminal in macOS has had a handful of developers working on it, at best, over the years.
This but every app on the mac that isn't Safari.
Eh, I know it's a joke but there are full teams who work on Pages/Numbers/etc.
I too use iTerm for its rich features, but the stock terminal is known to have lower latency [1] so some people might prefer that.
I suspect it's the same codebase, but don't have a proof of that.