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Sorry, I can't even feign concern about the state of Vim's source code. I'm a Vim user and plugin developer, not a Vim developer.

A single-threaded UI means I can easily tell what Vim is doing at any time. It means the editor never feels clunky because indexing or some other background activity is hogging resources. It also means I never get a "process is running" prompt like in IntelliJ or Emacs when I want to exit.

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> It also means I never get a "process is running" prompt like in IntelliJ or Emacs when I want to exit.

No, instead you find that you can't :q - or type anything for that matter - because everything's frozen while vim is realising that the network drive is down, or you're waiting for the syntax highlighting to finish.

And then you hit control-C and resume editing. None of this is as dramatic as you describe, and syntax-highlight freezes aren't as common now with the improved highlighting algorithm in 7.4.

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