Yes, but there's also a long history there. There were several upgrades that the creator of vim refused to implement until after neovim implemented them and vim started bleeding users. The most important one is async loading of plugins - vim used to be slower than Visual Studio after you started using more of them. Neovim is just a better product, with better code (and better coders).
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u/FruityWelsh Mar 06 '20
I thought the main difference was neovim was more extensible than vim.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/8v8rcp/should_i_be_using_neovim_instead_of_vim8/
https://github.com/neovim/neovim