Do you work for Zed or something?

Nope. I do have a single contribution to Zed and an extension. No attachment to the community or project though. But I do see that they are passionate enough to walk back on decisions that their community tells them is bad.

you'll be happy Gram exists.

That's the thing. I don't think so. Looking at its commit history, Gram is already significantly behind on features and more importantly, fixes. If/when enshittification happens, I'd rather have an up-to-date fork and I'd rather it be a fork for a more valid reason.

Edit: to clarify: I'm not really against gram, i just don't understand why it exists right now. It also seems like the dev is relatively new to rust. All in all, it just feels like something that should have happened a bit later.