I think your skepticism is justified, but there are two tools that I have seen that use tree-sitter for diffing: https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic https://

I think your skepticism is justified, but there are two tools that I have seen that use tree-sitter for diffing: https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter (I have not tried either personally.)