evil-org-open-below only adds a list item when the cursor is on the line of the bullet itself

[Robbert van der Helm]

I'm not sure if this is intended behaviour or not, but pressing o in the following situation inserts a line break instead of opening a list item:

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This could probably be solved by using org-in-item-p instead of org-at-item-p in evil-org-open-below and some other places, but again I'm not sure whether this was intentional or not.

[Somelauw]

This is intended.

My rationale is that if your item consists of multiple lines and you are somewhere in the middle of your item, it's more likely that you want to want to insert a line in the middle than to split your item.
It's also possible to have code blocks and other elements in your item and in those cases org-insert-item would create a new item in the middle of your code block, which most of the time isn't what you want.

[Robbert van der Helm]

Makes sense to me! Does evil-org-mode add any other ways to insert list items, or is A M-RET the way to go?

[Somelauw]

Perhaps there are a few cases in which o should insert a new item but currently doesn't. If so, feel free to suggest them.

Makes sense to me! Does evil-org-mode add any other ways to insert list items, or is A M-RET the way to go?

evil-org doesn't provide another way to continue items. Well, there is the return keytheme but it triggers on the same conditions as o.
As far as I know, the only other ways to insert an item that work out of the box are oM-RET or typing a - by hand.