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I'm surprised to see so much praise for kitty in this thread, considering Kovid's past controversies. His attitude towards criticism in the past has not been the best (examples here and here), and he seems to rule over his projects with a complete iron fist. Just taking a look at kitty's issue tracker, barring low-effort or bad issue reports, he often seems to respond with a non-fix and then immediately closes the issue. I guess I respect how active he is in maintaining his projects (seems like he interacts with almost every new issue), but he seems quite arrogant in defending his designs/taste. For my money, I prefer alacritty, which is even a smidge faster on my machine.
Not to say he isn't controversial (there's plenty of other examples of his abrasive personality) but the technical excellence of kitty is hard to ignore. You even get projects like NotCurses recommending that other terminals take note of kitty's enhancements (keyboard protocol and graphics). Even looking at the linked issue they made for an enhancement to the kitty graphics protocol, it definitely feeds the narrative that Kovid is plenty happy to take suggestions for clear technical improvements, but is just very opinionated. I don't use kitty but I hope that other terminals can take his ideas and improve them even more.