I'm the counterpoint to that belief. I started programming professionally in 2010, learned vim around 2012. My work environment was just better suited for a command line editor and it was nano, vim or emacs. Vim won. Since then, I'll have a constant itch to get vim bindings in whatever editor I'm using.

At the time I switched, I'd been using Notepad++ and loved it. These days, my graphical editor is Sublime (of course with vintage mode enabled).

Vim with just a handful of plugins is a complete IDE. Vim alone is an editor.