For me, Spacemacs with evil mode and Vim are quite similar, but I always end up going back to Vim because it's just a) way faster for me, and b) it integrates i

For me, Spacemacs with evil mode and Vim are quite similar, but I always end up going back to Vim because it's just a) way faster for me, and b) it integrates into my workflow better. For example, I don't want an extension to take care of git for me (magit), it's easier for me to just alt tab or bring a terminal in vim and do it there. I find Emacs users prefer to do everything in the editor, while I'd rather have one tool do one job. Of course what job exactly should a tool do is subjective, and varies from user to user :) Vim surely tales some "learning tax", new users are encouraged not to add every plugin they can find, instead, try to do things "the vim way". But that is also subjective. My experience with Vim was just make it more friendly first (installing things like NerdTREE and making it behave more like other editors I was used to), then slowly learn how to do what those plugins do with just vanilla vim, and see if I can either remove them or replace them with a more "barebones" and "vim-compatible" plugin. For example, I now use vim-dirvish which is like a better `netrw` (Vim's default file browser). I am biased of course, but I think Vim/Neovim is just great, and always worth checking out.