Given that for decades a primary draw for vi was that it was simple, the fact that people keep adding features to it until it's approaching where Emacs was a few decades ago is noteworthy. Noting that Emacs has had a certain feature for decades, and that the feature has been receiving bug fixes and adding still more sub-features is substantial.
Given that users of vim no longer seem to care about simplicity, one has to wonder: why stick with vim? Emacs has a far better extension language (elisp is to vimscript as a thermonuclear weapon is to a sharp stick), evil-mode can accurately replicate the vim editing experience, and Emacs has far more features and packages now than does vim.
It's a bit like preferring a race car to a van because you want speed, but then deciding you want to haul packages for a living and bolting on a 2-ton flatbed to the back of your race car. You end up wasting fuel and still not carrying as many packages as you could with a good van — and not running as quickly, either.