> It gives you access to keyboard shortcuts for moving around ...

Your whole comment can be dismissed easily because of this one gross misunderstanding. Vim is not a bunch of weird keyboard shortcuts. If one approaches Vim as an editor that uses keyboard shortcuts that are inconsistent with every other editor out there, then one is simply setting themselves up for pain and unproductivity.

Vim is not a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. It is an interactive editing language! For more, see this excellent comment on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/1175080 (a very well written answer!).