I heavily disagree. For one thing, not all of the things you said must be mastered, vim is plenty big enough to support various ways of working. E.g. I never u

I heavily disagree. For one thing, not all of the things you said must be mastered, vim is plenty big enough to support various ways of working. E.g. I never use the arglist. For another, from a pedagogical perspective, there's different levels of "mastery", and there's nothing worse we can do to scare off people trying to learn a new editor than to tell them "oh, no, to be considered a real master you need to put in months of learning".