> having a better modal editor than what evil is already providing FWIW, after using Evil for 1 year and generally liking it, it still fell a bit short for me

> having a better modal editor than what evil is already providing FWIW, after using Evil for 1 year and generally liking it, it still fell a bit short for me since you are still in emacs and still need emacs keybindings some of the time, and some other modes will conflict with Evil, so it was a bit hard to maintain. I switched from Evil to God Mode which gives you modal editing in emacs but using emacs key bindings. I have found this to be a good compromise.