I don't want a product that moves fast and breaks things, but I also don't want to carry the baggage of legacy support for strict vi-mode and whatever else ungodly edge cases vim continues to support.

What I'd rather see is vim with deprecations and upgrades on a reasonably timed roadmap. It's obviously a lot more work to maintain a 7.x branch, 8.x branch etc, but this is much more sustainable and meets everyone's needs better than saying "fuck it I just want Sublime with better vim bindings". An editor is not something where I want to chase the flavor of the month and deal with constant plugin breakages, but neither is it something where I want to be stuck in the 90s forever. There has to be a middle ground.

For the time being Bram's approach has earned my trust, and Neovim has to demonstrate many years of good project management and momentum before I will really be willing to trust it.