Vanilla Vim I would agree is not good for code browsing and inspection, but two things I've noticed when coding with Vim: 1. Code Browsing is an initial, one t

Vanilla Vim I would agree is not good for code browsing and inspection, but two things I've noticed when coding with Vim: 1. Code Browsing is an initial, one time cost when learning the code base. After you learn the code base, I've needed this ability much less. 2. Adding plugins like NERDTree and fzf/ripgrep have helped make code browsing much easier in Vim. The downside to this is that if you're new to Vim, you need to learn how to use these plugins on top of learning how to Vim. So it's just more to learn. But you can also think of this as another one time cost in general.