I used VsVim for a number of years and felt the same way. Eventually, I was back in vim full-time (moved on from the projects/team that required Visual Studio).

I used VsVim for a number of years and felt the same way. Eventually, I was back in vim full-time (moved on from the projects/team that required Visual Studio). I've spent the last year migrating to neovim. I've spent the last month getting into some C# development and the VS Code neovim integration is very well done. It's not the same, and I will not be switching to VS Code for anything other than this C# work (for the foreseeable future, I just really like neovim...), but it's not an emulation layer (with this plugin the VS Code editor is a neovim instance in the backend) and it doesn't feel like one, either.