If I had as much extra time as I ever wanted one of the projects I'd work on would be a vim-style modal editor where ctrl-X in insert mode usually corresponded

If I had as much extra time as I ever wanted one of the projects I'd work on would be a vim-style modal editor where ctrl-X in insert mode usually corresponded to X in normal mode and where CUA conventions are followed when practical. And where you do move-command rather than command-move and you have both an emacs yank-ring and a vim jump-ring.