I agree: Vim is really held back by its reliance on default keymaps. Sure, you can remap them, but they are still the lifeblood of what Vim is. You can't change

I agree: Vim is really held back by its reliance on default keymaps. Sure, you can remap them, but they are still the lifeblood of what Vim is. You can't change what they are. Even emacs has this problem: there is a general set of consistent keymaps that are set by a wide variety of emacs modes. It's certainly not a trivial task to change, or get rid of them.