Originally the big selling points (IMO) were that it supported async plugins and an embedded terminal. Vim added both of those in version 8. For whatever reason

Originally the big selling points (IMO) were that it supported async plugins and an embedded terminal. Vim added both of those in version 8. For whatever reason this issue bugs me enough to keep me from switching https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1496 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1496. I tend to open things like :!tig and neovim can't do it.