When I was a novice first starting vim I was given great advice that I followed for many years: avoid custom mappings. It's tough to learn vim if you confuse it

When I was a novice first starting vim I was given great advice that I followed for many years: avoid custom mappings. It's tough to learn vim if you confuse its mappings. When I was an intermediate user of vim for several years I had drastically custom mappings because I thought I knew enough and knew better. I thought I had a good excuse, too: I was using a different keyboard layout and I might as well remap everything. As an aged user of vim, I can't call myself "advanced" or an "expert" user I don't think, I've returned to the wisdom of the sages: avoid custom mappings. I still need some moderate remappings for my keyboard layout but have come back around to "the less I remap, the better".