However, there's a huge leap in productivity between having an editor whose keybinds you know (and can use without a mouse), and one which you have extended wit

However, there's a huge leap in productivity between having an editor whose keybinds you know (and can use without a mouse), and one which you have extended with extensive macros. That's like the difference between an out-of-the-box Emacs and SLIME. Your Vim setup is awesome, but for a newbie to vim like me, it'll take a long time before I'm more productive using it -- not only would I need to internalize the keybinds and text processing tools, but I would also then have to start adding custom scripts and stuff, in order to do other things. (run unit tests, evaluate a block of code in an interpreter, etc)