I don't know, this sounds a lot like blub to me. "I've never seen anyone do anything with a charcoal stick that i couldn't do with my ballpoint." Or "I don't se

I don't know, this sounds a lot like blub to me. "I've never seen anyone do anything with a charcoal stick that i couldn't do with my ballpoint." Or "I don't see why people like regex when code refactoring tools are so much smarter." People say the same thing about Linux vs Windows in general, particularly the "for most users" straw man. We're not talking about most users, we're talking about users that care enough about a use case to put up with the time it takes to learn tooling. If someone cared about things vim was good at (flexible, programmatic text editing), they'd be more likely to have switched to using it. The fact that your needs don't like up, that you don't appreciate the difference or don't care about it, e.g. because you mostly edit source files in a particular language well-supported by your IDE, rather than frequently needing to do one-off esoteric things to a wide variety of files with varying semantics. Fwiw, i know vim well, have used it many years, and still frequently switch to an ide when doing things that the IDE was specifically designed to support.