This is obviously a problem with getting used to anything you can't always rely on. Vim addiction made me try Pentadactyl and now I find it incredibly painful t

This is obviously a problem with getting used to anything you can't always rely on. Vim addiction made me try Pentadactyl and now I find it incredibly painful to use a browser without similiar functionality. It's also unpleasant to use a keyboard whose Caps Lock hasn't been mapped to act as an Esc. By building your workflow around Vim (or anything else) you can gain a lot but you also become a prisoner to it. I suppose it's about trading flexibility for power. Thus far it seems to have been net win. It also seems that you can't see this from outside, which leads to people recommending their own tools for everyone else.