>Obviously your experience doesn't agree with mine, and I clearly can't say why. All I can say is that vim simply "clicked" for me when I first learnt it. I have coached enough coworkers that I can say the same thing applies to most people who take the time to learn the "vim way". And of course vim would not be as popular as it is, if that wasn't generally the case.

From my very first comment about the matter.

>>I spent about 4 months on it daily unable to get up to speed how I was originally.

>>This may just speak to my own inabilities of muscle memory, and granted, If I used Vim a little younger, I think the outcome would be different.

You keep talking about configuration, when the bigger elephant in the room is learning the keybindings.

It took me almost 2 months to be comfortable without looking at the vim cheatsheet

It then took another 2 months to get to a speed at which I felt like I could be productive.

And at that point, my typescript projects were so incredibly slow, I had to quit vim.

>But it's objectively complete nonsense to claim that vscode does not require a substantial time-investment if you really want to super-power it.

I still disagree as GUIs makes configurations a lot simpler, and as plugins are just a click away.

Again, if you include learning the keybindings, which for some reason you refuse to, you'd find it within yourself that you would disagree with your initial statement.