Can distros quit shoving unexpected behaviors and options down our throats? Nothing like trying to edit a YML file and have vim go all wacky on the indentation,

Can distros quit shoving unexpected behaviors and options down our throats? Nothing like trying to edit a YML file and have vim go all wacky on the indentation, or trying to paste text into an xterm and have vim intercept my mouse. No, I was expecting to see my terminal's right-click menu. Yes, that's what .vimrc is for, but now that's one more config file to keep track of.