I've taken the dive very recently as well, not into vim directly, but into a text editor called Helix. It's similar to vim, except the main difference is that y

I've taken the dive very recently as well, not into vim directly, but into a text editor called Helix. It's similar to vim, except the main difference is that you select what you want to modify and then modify it (word-verb I believe it is called in vim parlance). I think this makes more intuitive sense than doing it the other way around. I have a similar experience to the author. I did the tutor, wrote some notes as a cheat sheet, keep it open somewhere and just use the editor. I began using lots of tools that were keyboard focused and used vim-like keybinds (qutebrowser and other things). I wouldn't say productivity is increased, and I'm not a productivity zealot, but I'd say that once my mind adapts to the new environment, doing things is smooth as butter. The hard part is the fight inside yourself against the idea that you're relearning something you already can do another way that you don't actually need, afterwards you'll ask yourself why you ever did it the old way.