I would say this is largely true in practice, although when I found out that vim could have multiple buffers, windows, tabs, and that you could save session fil

I would say this is largely true in practice, although when I found out that vim could have multiple buffers, windows, tabs, and that you could save session files, I suddenly was keeping vim open for many hours and opening new files in my existing instance. I would say a lot of people learn vim in a hurry and don't go far beyond the basics.