vim is all muscle memory. You don't need to read any menus or icons. It is perfect for drunk coding with blurry vision. It just isn't ideal for casual use. This

vim is all muscle memory. You don't need to read any menus or icons. It is perfect for drunk coding with blurry vision. It just isn't ideal for casual use. This is the real difference. Most web interfaces need to be immediately usable by a casual user to sell products or ad views. Expert interfaces can be as complex as you like as long as they reward learning time with productivity improvements. If you are going to be spending the rest of your career writing text, spending hundreds of hours learning a powerful tool is time well spent. Not that vim is that tool for everyone but most programming editors will have a learning curve which is beyond anything a casual user would attempt.