Good points. A better codebase and community typically mean a better experience for users, but I avoided talking much about concrete benefits because I thought

Good points. A better codebase and community typically mean a better experience for users, but I avoided talking much about concrete benefits because I thought the post was getting rather long. There are a lot of opportunities for improving the responsiveness of plugins. Many currently block the UI in Vim: autocomplete, search, ctrlp-style filename matching, etc. The list of Neovim-only plugins isn't huge yet, but it's only going to grow longer as plugin writers take advantage of Neovim's improved API.