Text editors are very personal things and people are passionate with their choice.
We have shipped with gedit since the budgie remix days.
Development upstream has virtually ground to a halt. GNOME in 22.10 will be replacing gedit with a new libadwaita based app.
Some may claim the old pluma text editor is the natural replacement. Forked from gnome years ago it is part of the mate desktop. Development though is on the same pace of gedit…
Geany is another editor and is currently actively maintained after recently achieving a gtk3 port.
So this is not going to be a easy decision… more discussion is needed.