Mastering vim is about learning a language (of verbs and objects) for communicating effectively with your text editor. The modal aspects are there, but my expe

Mastering vim is about learning a language (of verbs and objects) for communicating effectively with your text editor. The modal aspects are there, but my experience has been that 80% of my editing time is spent reading and finding the right place to put something, and the default when opening a file is reading to find the right spot. Further, switching from read mode to write mode is often done with different purposes, and vim lets me express those different intents when changing modes (insert here, replace this word, replace this line, etc). I think there is probably a little bit of changing your workflow, but for me it's been largely about learning how vim fits my workflow.