Many editors pop up with zero ecosystem and become successful anyway. All you need to do is provide a better editor experience in some fashion for there to be a

Many editors pop up with zero ecosystem and become successful anyway. All you need to do is provide a better editor experience in some fashion for there to be a value proposition. Atom, VS Code, helix, zed, etc. none of these had mountains of plugins and integrations initially. Plus building vi-like editors is just a fun exercise a lot of programmers undertake, hence why there are so many. People have to try things to know what is better.