I have somewhat mixed feelings about Obsidian's plugin ecosystem. It's incredibly good in terms of what people make as plugins, but it sort of highlights an issue with software that feels open source while not being open source.
There's no issue for me with software being closed source or with charging money for software and associated services. But Obsidian is closed source software for which the core user base absolutely depends on community-developed plugins, to the point that I think for most of the serious Obsidian users out there, using the software without plugins would be almost unthinkable.
In an open source app, all the critical plugins that are most commonly used would long since have been folded into the application itself, I think? I dunno, I'm not a software developer. It just feels like a weird situation for the community developers and for the user base.
And, as I keep saying, it is very funny that my text editor has a meta. Like, the fact that we need to talk about which 46 out of the several hundred available plugins are essential, is wild.



