It is common for build time or runtime dependencies to change in incompatible ways meaning eventually you might not even be able to run it or even built it from source.

> It's a text editor.

It's a code editor. Without Language Server support.

EDIT: fork does support it though https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugins, proving the point

Even text editors can have security vulnerabilities that allow privilege escalation. Especially if they support plugins which this does.

To each their own, but I wouldn't risk it.