I work differently. I mainly read code, and do small manipulations in different places. Reading technical documentation is maybe 5% of what I do. I mainly need

I work differently. I mainly read code, and do small manipulations in different places. Reading technical documentation is maybe 5% of what I do. I mainly need to figure out code. So basically it's jumping around, refactor some stuff, and add some stuff. For that, Vim is ideal. Code only flows straight from brain to fingers when it's trivial and boring ;). I use the VSVim plugin in VSCode. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "productivity boost", but more of a convenience or ergonomic solution. The Vim keybindings make it really easy to for example copy something within () and then navigate quickly and paste it somewhere without touching your mouse. But overall I agree, I can probably do the same amount of work without the Vim plugin, it would just make it more inconvenient: more mouse manipulations, ctrl-shift-arrow finger spreadstands to select chucks of text etc.