Yeah, I do still use vim on remote sessions where I know I'm just going to be making a small change and then be done with it -- losing your entire environment or history is a lot less worrying in that case, and it's way easier than mounting the server locally or something.

However, as someone once said: "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." If you don't close vim and keep it open for weeks, then all your environment changes are going to keep on building up, only for you to lose everything the next time you need to restart your system, or upgrade your editor or terminal, or your OS crashes, or there's a power failure, or your computer catches fire.