To be fair, lots of vim proponents obviously didn't spent much time in editors they're dunking on. The extent of sophistication mentioned for non-vim editors is "you can use ctrl+arrows to move around". Followed with "even if you like editor X, you can use vim emulation". And that vim emulation is usually just map of existing editor functionality to vim layer.

(I'm not saying that vi(m) doesn't have its merits, just that the argument can go both ways)

Ok let's be real for a second... only one of those has people googling for a way to exit it.

Like yes, a lot of people don't give vim a chance, but vim also uses a very specific style of shortcut. If you can cut and paste with your keyboard, you already use IntellJ-style shortcuts (because those are just the default style of hotkey people are used to). The same doesn't go for vim.