If you really use vim, you typically are "always" in normal mode. When you want to type text, you go into insert mode, and you leave it when you're done. If you

If you really use vim, you typically are "always" in normal mode. When you want to type text, you go into insert mode, and you leave it when you're done. If you sit around in insert mode, you miss out on a lot of utility. >Also define “smooth flow”. I my experience pair programming, by the time you are starting you command after choosing among all possibilities, I have already performed the change with VSCode. There's really not much thought involved. If you can imagine yourself using keyboard shortcuts, it's probably pretty similar. In a simple example, you don't think "I gotta hold ctrl, press c, release c, and then release ctrl", you just think "I'm going to copy this". I think you have the idea that vim is really complicated and its users must be bogged down and thinking more. At worst I would say it's probably the same as what you have now, unless you count very early stages where you actually just don't know your way around too well. When you're situated and experienced, it's not ever slower in my experience. On the contrary I feel a bit disabled when I have to edit in something without vim keys. It's not like I can't jump around with home/end and select text with ctrl-shift-arrows and whatnot, but it doesn't feel as fast or comfortable or natural to me.