It's fine that they dont want to do it or dont want to do it yet.

Still, I wasn't especially impressed with "code folding is hard, we might do it one day but don't hold your breath" from an editor that purports to be a replacement for vim or neovim.

Development is a bit slow because there are only a few maintainers, but also because they have a strong vision and are very aggressive about prioritization and rejecting features that don’t fit. This is why Helix is so good and so focused a tool.