No. Bear is not losing the vision. Bear is getting better.
If you don’t want change, use a text editor or emacs. If you want all the bells & whistles in your face, use a word processor. Bear provides simple markdown editing and we finally have the option to view notes without markdown (for those that want to still see it, they have the option). I use Bear daily for notes (work & personal) and, in my opinion, Bear is only getting better with Bear 2.