I would hope the reason the GP is downvoted isn’t because of disagreement, but because the comment is a cheap potshot. Your comment says a similar thing but is

I would hope the reason the GP is downvoted isn’t because of disagreement, but because the comment is a cheap potshot. Your comment says a similar thing but is much more substantial and useful to spur further discussion. As an evil mode user, I agree there are occasions where it isn’t present or doesn’t work, but I’ve generally added mappings for those cases or just memorized the emacs-style chords. What do you mean by putting line numbers in the first column btw? Like inserting the current line number at the start of each line?