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But the updates he pushes can be anything. You fully trust that one single person.
Kate has a developer community, their build is happening by a CI and commits need approval of multiple people. This is a huge difference.

Of course there are tons of other options. Since Kate mains Linux, you can't expect it to be without problems on Windows.

But you can just use VSCode or Sublime.
I think people are stuck with Notepad++ because they think that editors used for software development are too complicated for them.
Pic related is a 12MB install, a magnitude superior to Notepad++ and arguably easier to use, despite it being mainly used for software development.