It’s the vim user that is stuck thinking like a mouse/notepad user, because the vim user has an index into the file that needs to be moved (your cursor), wherea

It’s the vim user that is stuck thinking like a mouse/notepad user, because the vim user has an index into the file that needs to be moved (your cursor), whereas the avy user doesn’t have to think about where he’s coming from, it’s all relative to the viewport. The typical emacs user navigates through project-wide greps and jumps, buffer local searches, and things like avy.