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> Even with EVIL mode it didn't feel just as smooth.

I’m surprised to hear this. I’d personally assess Evil highly — in some areas, it’s even better than Vim. What problem(s) did you have with it?

If you haven't done so already I'd also recommend looking at evil-collection (https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection). This enables Evil keybindings throughout Emacs which can certainly help.

Checkout God Mode, which is inspired by Vim but is designed with emacs bindings in mind, not vim bindings. I used it for years (before moving to VS Code).

None that I'm aware of, especially for vim-users, I'm also using EVIL mode.

As I mentioned in another comment, "god mode" is an emacs package that provides more native-emacs modal editing features.