The advantage is that vi is a language. You can speak that language in Vscode... kiiiiind of, just like you can speak evil to emacs. But these are dialects, vi

The advantage is that vi is a language. You can speak that language in Vscode... kiiiiind of, just like you can speak evil to emacs. But these are dialects, vim is the real deal. Neovim with a ton of plugins offers a lot of what an IDE brings to the table, and lets your fingers speak fluent vim at the same time. So when you're randomly shelled in to some stock install that's got vi (realistically this is mostly vim but it doesn't have to be) you can keep speaking your native language for whatever text editing you might happen to do.