Tried 3/4 of the tools, and none helped me reattach neovim.
Ended up using dtach. Needs to be run ahead of time, but very direct and minimal stdin/stdout piping tool that's worked great with everything I've thrown at it.
https://github.com/crigler/dtach
https://github.com/jerome-pouiller/reredirect/
https://github.com/pasky/retty
https://github.com/trishume/telefork