> Neovim is where "big changes" can happen, gut legacy support, move fast, break shit. It is on Github, it has multiple people doing major contributions, it is being re-factored to make it easier for MORE people to get involved. Neovim wants to be a huge community project, which is awesome.

The first thing done to Neovim was to re-format all the code and then do some refactoring that breaks things. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs but this practically burned the bridges behind and any hope of merging stuff upstream/downstream from neovim to vim or vice versa is gone. At least without significant manual labor.

If you ask me, this was a premature move and the neovim guys should have tried to make non-breaking changes first with an opportunity for upstream-downstream merges.