I've always found it curious that Vim is most often associated with modal editing. I consider it to be so much more than that; highly customisable, huge plugin

I've always found it curious that Vim is most often associated with modal editing. I consider it to be so much more than that; highly customisable, huge plugin ecosystem, ubiquitous, lightweight and works in the terminal. Modal editing never stuck with me, I just ended up writing more and more conventional shortcuts, so much so that I wrote my own "No Vim" mode plugin [1]. Just like VSCode and other editors have "Vim mode", so too does Vim have a "conventional mode". So don't let modal editing be a factor in your considerations. 1. https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode