I had the same worries! It’s great to be positively surprised that it’s all good news in Obsidian’s case.
replyI was wondering at which point the enshittification would be revealed.
reply> the enshittification
replyA strong reason to stick to using Obsidian as just a Markdown editor and not get sucked into the plugin ecosystem at all. If your Obsidian vault is just a folder of Markdown files, you're ready to leave at a moment's notice.
If I ever go in on some plugin ecosystem, it'll be FOSS, non-commercial, and have been around long enough to drink. (Emacs?) Haven't felt the need; a Markdown vault for reference resources + pen & paper for ephemera suffices for me.