I would remap, but the major reason for using vi is that I'm hopping onto another machine or docker instance -- then my problem would become propagating my .vim

I would remap, but the major reason for using vi is that I'm hopping onto another machine or docker instance -- then my problem would become propagating my .vimrc file everywhere. So I keep my vi knowledge to plain vanilla on purpose, generally. I may be more suited to chording just because I have very large hands and will use either pinky, or the palm of my hand to hit the control on either side.