We know they're wise because they insult everything else in the world and claim to know the one true way.
There are parts of the old internet that I don't miss.
/s, I hope.
But I also tried it on linux (Fedora, whatever version I was running at the time) and WSL (Ubuntu this time) and I still couldn't get it to work.
Checking my notes, last time (03/25) I was trying to get it to work with an LSP server a colleague had created for an in-house programming language. After pulling my hair out with installation instructions and getting the right version to play ball with the LSP server it seems I hit a snag with neovim not picking up the vimrc_example.vim file from the location it said it should, and then an error when I removed the file at the path of the vimrc_example it wasn't picking up options from (meaning it really was accessing the first file but just ignoring everything in it). It seems I was trying to use that file because it was recommended by the neovim dox online (I think the dox said to create an init.lua file pointing to that vim file).
So I gave up on neovim and went back to using vim.
Now, what's all that puerile invective in the article above about? How is swearing at your users going to make them appreciate your work? Wouldn't it be better to just have something that's easy to use? I've installed vim on all my computers running every major operating system and it's never gave me any trouble with picking up its vimrc or anything else really (except plugins... plugins suck).
Why is neovim so hard to get started with? It's a fork of vim, right? What did the devs change that so drastically changes the experience using vim? I don't understand.
Let people do what they want!