I don't think that's the issue. Vim has been maintained for years, even after NeoVim popped on the scene. The main contention point these days seems to be Vim's

I don't think that's the issue. Vim has been maintained for years, even after NeoVim popped on the scene. The main contention point these days seems to be Vim's choice of vimscript 9 instead of Lua as chosen by NeoVim. Now there's a divide in the plugin community.