Your definition of "works" doesn't include "ability to easily absorb change as the world modernizes". The world of computing is changing each year and any softw

Your definition of "works" doesn't include "ability to easily absorb change as the world modernizes". The world of computing is changing each year and any software that works well needs to adapt (or else be trivially small like many unix utils so the world adapts around them or abandons them). I love vim and have looked at contributing a number of times but the sheer amount of cruft creates a huge barrier.