If you look at vim commit history, it was pretty much stagnant for a long period of time, and then activity picked up in 2016, when it finally got competition f

If you look at vim commit history, it was pretty much stagnant for a long period of time, and then activity picked up in 2016, when it finally got competition from neovim. IMO governance model for vim, is not much receptive to community contribution, while neovim is more open. Looking at commit history and contributors graph on github seems to validate this.