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> I found the disabling the arrow keys in normal mode was the point of no return!

Is there any reason to do this when you have a keyboard that has easily reachable arrow keys? (Kinesis Advantage, in my case.)

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Yea, it forces you to use the vim bindings. This is advantageous, since your hands don't leave the home row. It seems minor, but when you actually "get" vim, you'll actually see speed improvements. It sounds silly, the half second saved here and there, but once you've done it long enough, you get into a flow that you just can't get moving your hands to the arrows or mouse.

^ this. I could likely reuse them for something now but when your muscle memory has you going there all the time at the start it's better if they just do nothing. I think it is at least.

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