It's not so much about reducing the amount of characters typed, and instead moving the way you think about code from the character level to a more structural le

It's not so much about reducing the amount of characters typed, and instead moving the way you think about code from the character level to a more structural level. Calling it a "reflex" is an interesting phrase! Tools like magit let me encode complicated processes into muscle memory, in a way where retrieval doesn't have to go through remembering and typing a string. Structural editing is similar.