I genuinely consider falling into established patterns and modes of interaction (i.e. a cargo cult approach) to be a serious problem for software engineers, inc

I genuinely consider falling into established patterns and modes of interaction (i.e. a cargo cult approach) to be a serious problem for software engineers, including myself. And I think that vi and emacs keybindings are a great point illustrating this problem. But you are the boss, boss. Won't happen again.