my impetus for exploring it was that vim modal editing and keyboard navigation is just really clunky in the notebook integration.
whether or not it's better for you depends on your use case for notebooks — i use them mostly for prototyping and exploratory data analysis so separating the code from the output might be more convenient for me than for you
i wanted to like marimo, but the best notebook interface i've tried so far is vscode's interactive window [0]. the important thing is that it's a python file first, but you can divide up the code into cells to run in the jupyter kernel either all at once or interactively.
using discord for community and docs is a dead giveaway for whether a FOSS project is actually about FOSS principle or whether it's about chasing clout
whether or not it's better for you depends on your use case for notebooks — i use them mostly for prototyping and exploratory data analysis so separating the code from the output might be more convenient for me than for you