This is the right perspective. Not “what can it do for me today”, but rather “what will it do for me over my entire career”. The future of vim is more vim. I

This is the right perspective. Not “what can it do for me today”, but rather “what will it do for me over my entire career”. The future of vim is more vim. I have been using vi and its descendants for over 30 years, and the core behavior is the same as it has always been. It has done all I ever needed, and it works everywhere and over slow connections. The future of VSCode is at the mercy of Microsoft, and that absolutely will change under you without warning. They control the value of the skills that you learn. Why would you take that risk?