Well let's not generalize on the clunky part; there's always Visual Studio ;-) I would generally agree with your point, especially on the discoverability front

Well let's not generalize on the clunky part; there's always Visual Studio ;-) I would generally agree with your point, especially on the discoverability front - this is why emacs and vim have an often dreaded learning curve. But OTOH, there are also a couple of rather nice benefits to the terminal focus that I don't currently see in more GUI focused editors. It would certainly be doable to replicate them, but it seems like no one's trying currently. So I would hold off on forgetting about the terminal until there's a viable alternative around. Oh, and: I've seen my fair share of botched remote access solutions on the Windows side of things and would probably use any TUI editor short of ed over any IDE in those situations. At least SSH is responsive.