Agreed. Emacs and Vim basically try to do the same thing with two very different approaches, and both can fit well depending on the use-case. I also get why man

Agreed. Emacs and Vim basically try to do the same thing with two very different approaches, and both can fit well depending on the use-case. I also get why many prefer VS Code, because spending hours to learn and configure a program just for text editing is not universally appealing. But other people just want that configurability. > Evil has existed for a long time but vim is still more popular. Because the behaviour isn't identical(it even has default settings that intentionally deviate!), because it isn't complete(it doesn't affect any other mode), but most importantly for me because Emacs cannot fully match Vim's keybinding functionality. I broke my Emacs configuration a dozen times before realising that. I am glad I tried out Emacs as a Vim user though, it led to a couple improvements of my Vim configuration and I learned a couple new things.