Only tangentially touching your points, my take on Vim or modal editing in general is the following: When I edit existing text (program code, prose) a modal ed

Only tangentially touching your points, my take on Vim or modal editing in general is the following: When I edit existing text (program code, prose) a modal editor shines. I am mostly in command mode and re-arrange text or re-factor code from here to there. When I am _creating_ text, for me a modal type editor is a hindrance. Agreed, I should probably be most of the time in insert mode yet in practice I find myself switching between insert mode and command mode all the time. For what reasons ever this switching never made it into "muscle memory" and disrupts my workflow. For that reasons I am an avid user of both Vim and Emacs.