> Separate modes for command & insert just feels inherently clumsy and slow to me. Interesting, I have the opposite experience. In normal mode, I can do a lot

> Separate modes for command & insert just feels inherently clumsy and slow to me. Interesting, I have the opposite experience. In normal mode, I can do a lot using very few keystrokes. In editors without modes, there's always a lot of keyboard shortcuts which are difficult to remember and hard to execute.