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I moved from the Jetbrains stack to vim ~3 years ago and haven't looked back. Mastering vim of course takes some time, but getting up and running and being productive does not take too long at all.

It did help that I was mainly writing Go at the time which has the great vim-go plugin. Not sure how I would have done if I was writing mainly writing another language (C#, Java etc come to mind as perhaps benefiting more from a full-fledged IDE).

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I just use the vim plugin in Jetbrains products. I get vim navigation, editing modes, basic macros. Vim emulation is not thorough, so I can’t get more complex features, but they seem unnecessary when I get Jetbrains features.

Every time I ctrl-v and then gq in intellij i die a little inside. Why won't it just work!

That's outside of my bag o' tricks. There was definitely some pain getting things to work to satisfaction in the Jetbrains tools. In a few cases I simply had to adopt a different workflow. But I'm feeling pretty happy about it now.

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