I'm a new gen vim user, defined as in having lived a shorter time then vim itself. the learning cliff is significant, I've spent a whole month doing everything

I'm a new gen vim user, defined as in having lived a shorter time then vim itself. the learning cliff is significant, I've spent a whole month doing everything in vim to burn everything into muscle memory, and once that period is over, it becomes self reinforcing. The payoff is significant, I don't leave the terminal to go to some graphic IDE anymore, unless it's Java. And my vim setup started to look more like an IDE - but an IDE that comes with the full power of vim and it's different modes. Once you get over the initial excitement over keystrokes, you'd realize that modal editing is actually the biggest draw. People have different preferences, but for me, vim has been absolutely worth it.