The reason vim is accepted despite being unintuitive is because you spend all your time in it. There are always tradeoffs between intuitive UIs and UIs that are

The reason vim is accepted despite being unintuitive is because you spend all your time in it. There are always tradeoffs between intuitive UIs and UIs that are efficient and ergonomic when they’re fully understood. Vim leans more toward the latter with the expectation that you’ll learn most of the features after years of using it.