It's just our minds don't work that way when thinking about editing text Please speak for yourself, sir. I do 2-5 line rearrangements and jumps very often and

It's just our minds don't work that way when thinking about editing text Please speak for yourself, sir. I do 2-5 line rearrangements and jumps very often and hate to do “home home shift+ down down down shift- ctrl_x scroll scroll scroll scroll …” instead of “4dd'a”. When it’s hard to count lines, you can “V/something<CR>” or “V30j” and adjust with jk to select more or less. When it’s a block, “%v%”. Vim always has less-movement ways even when you can’t calculate precisely and my mind can’t work in a “wait for 50 key-repeats” mode. But I’ve felt what you’re describing at the time when my knowledge was shallow and I didn’t really know the essential part of vim. It's impossible to design a less intuitive text-editor. This one I agree with.