I find the same. Vim has some core concepts that are unique and (for those of us who adopt them) very sticky. My entire career has been spent trying out IDEs

I find the same. Vim has some core concepts that are unique and (for those of us who adopt them) very sticky. My entire career has been spent trying out IDEs every few years in hope of switching, dating back to Eclipse. I always try their vim modes too. But the reality is that the core editing experience in vim is so central to how I work that I can never manage it. I like features, and I have no love for arcane configuration of plugins. Yet to this day I've found nothing better for me than vim.