You probably don't use $ and ^ to move around in a line. It's much more likely you want to add text at those locations, so you'd use A to append to the line or

You probably don't use $ and ^ to move around in a line. It's much more likely you want to add text at those locations, so you'd use A to append to the line or I to insert at the start of the line. These are much easier to type. Similarly, gg and G are beginning and end of file, and V selects the entire line, but you could use c^ or c$ if you do actually want to change to the beginning or end of the line.