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And as such neovim has dropped POSIX conformance (including things like `:!` as you mention, that I use regularly) and is apparently not interested in it.

I wanted to like neovim for its possibly better lsp integration, but if all I need is an IDE with partial vi emulation, I might as well use VSCode.

It's true that there are minor differences but 99% of the experience is the same, with Vimscript and Vim plugins alike.

Thanks for that. I was thinking of trying NeoVim but I regularly use the `:!` feature to filter (selected) text through Unix utilities – and `:view` if I forget to use the `-R` option when opening a file that I don’t want to accidentally edit, e.g., log files.

:! itself has not been stripped from neovim, it's the "interactive" :! that has been stripped (as the OP said)

i.e if you do :!bash in vim you enter bash in neovim you won't

Thanks for the clarification. That makes sense and seems like a reasonable change to me.

I wouldn't say that `:!bash` is the most illustrative example of its impact. It bites you when you run any command that spits out a prompt, most commonly a [Yn] prompt. You can't use `:!` for these in nvim.