> I think that comfort and convenience are playing a very important role Absolutely. Learning new tools is cumbersome, and programs like Vim and Emacs are not

> I think that comfort and convenience are playing a very important role Absolutely. Learning new tools is cumbersome, and programs like Vim and Emacs are not just different but also completely unfamiliar for newcomers. Everything you know from the usual text editors is at least partially useless and when you can't even press Ctrl-S to save the file it seems hard to justify learning the basics from scratch. It's easier to just install VS Code and click on a couple plugins. And I mean it's hard to see the benefits beforehand. Some people I met thought Vim is just some ancient editor with the featureset of Notepad and needlessly complicated controls. That those controls could be really intuitive doesn't come to mind.