The Vim bindings have the same issue. Sure, it's modal, and you have to hit `i` before you can insert text... but there's nearly no features when you're not in

The Vim bindings have the same issue. Sure, it's modal, and you have to hit `i` before you can insert text... but there's nearly no features when you're not in insert mode. The only one I was able to trigger off the top of my head was using `dd` to delete a line... and it didn't even yank it, so p wouldn't paste it back in. No searching, no undoing, no applying commands to multiple lines, no `.` to repeat the last action... Like the emacs mode, it feels like it was implemented to check a feature off on a list, not because someone wanted to take advantage of the things that vi/emacs do well.