I don't think a lot of effort was put into actually intentionally breeding cats for domestication. People seem to love them as semi wild animals and unlike dog

I don't think a lot of effort was put into actually intentionally breeding cats for domestication. People seem to love them as semi wild animals and unlike dogs they aren't dangerous enough to be put down when they start biting people. On top of that a large percentage of the population are actually wild animals aka feral. Spend a lot of time with a kitten and it may become extremely affectionate, but we also habitually neuter them unlike the wild population. Go back 1,000 years and I suspect people acted similarly though without the neutering. So the external evolutionary pressure for domestication doesn't seem nearly as strong as with those foxes, and might currently be going in the other direction.