I was in the same boat then I switched to Doom Emacs it has all the VIM keybindings but a lot of the emacs power and it covered a lot of the places that VIM was lacking before I now find it one of the best prodcutivity decisions I've made in a long time.

Plus once you figure out org mode and magit you can't imagine living life without them.

(Also as a humrous aside I just tried finishing this post by typing :wq! because of force of habit, I love vim)

Maybe you don’t yet grok vi.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118

> I've never seen any great benefits to learning more advanced features of the application, it's just too much to think about.

Once you learn them, there is nothing to think about; that's the beauty. It's muscle memory - I swear (I haven't tested with an EKG) that the signal doesn't enter my conciousness, like an old violinist playing.

It depends on how much you use it. Being able to open multiple files, visually diff from a VCS, and find/replace in all open buffers is quite handy if you're in the CLI quite a lot

Vim is very big, so don't learn it until you need it. For example, if you want to draw diagrams in Vim, you could certainly just add all the spaces and such yourself, or you could use `virtualedit=block` and vim will add the spaces for you. But you'd never know about the option beforehand because you didn't need it before.

Those benefits only became apparent after about a week of forcing myself to use them + some minor tweaks.

Can't say it made me any faster or more efficient, but it sure does feel satisfying and more comfortable. And, let's be honest, it also makes me look cool!