Has any vim-like ever not had the complaint that it was insufficiently vim so as to be impossible to switch to? I suspect the helix devs knew what they were do

Has any vim-like ever not had the complaint that it was insufficiently vim so as to be impossible to switch to? I suspect the helix devs knew what they were doing when they deviated from the vim gospel. One does not convert the users of vim; text editors are like science — it advances one death at a time.