Perhaps it's confirmation bias, but it seems like quite a few vim/emacs/nano discussions have appeared on HN recently (more so than usual), with much of the com

Perhaps it's confirmation bias, but it seems like quite a few vim/emacs/nano discussions have appeared on HN recently (more so than usual), with much of the commentary being along the lines of "Yeah I had a look at vim, but I don't see the point." What drives people to make comments like this? Why not either put in the work to understand the point, or just move along?