> Macros are the only reason why you would need vim today. ... Everything else something like vscode already provides. I've yet to see vscode get an equivalent

> Macros are the only reason why you would need vim today. ... Everything else something like vscode already provides. I've yet to see vscode get an equivalent for % ! some-filtering-command Being able to slice and dice a buffer with command-line tools is so very, very, very powerful.