I use that method too. When I found out it was available I ditched my experiments with jj, jk, etc. This and finding out how many users just use / for most of their higher-level navigation needs has helped me quite a bit.

It is important to note that they aren't identical:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53633/does-using-ctr...

some people differentiate between customisation and setting flags like turning on syntax highlighting, fwiw.

My daily drive is spacemacs, all the tweaking is there.