Same I love my ligatures to death. And there are some interesting goodies. I find the author take on `tmux` being unecessary interesting, albeit it's a quite divisive opinion. Nevertheless, it's refreshing to see the status quo being challenged.
I liked kitty, but this was part of what drove me away. My terminal at work spans the bottom half of my monitor, and is typically split into 2-3 panes. I’ll also have multiple named windows at any given time. This works amazingly well for me, and I have no desire to switch.
My other problem was having TERMINFO available on remote servers. I’m not about to start installing alternative terminal emulators in prod, and while there is a workaround to losing control characters, IIRC it’s a pain.
But on the other hand, while I totally understand why https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#i-get-errors-about-the-... exists, it's quite annoying to handle that, as we often take this bit for granted.
It makes sense from a tech pov, but not from a product one. It's a choice and I respect that. It didn't prevent me to use Kitty for years.