I wish back in the day people coming from windows were shown nano/pico instead of vi. If they had known there was something very analogous to dos edit I would think more windows people wouldn't have the experience with Unix they seem to have had.

Even today I am not a vim purist. I tell people to try nano out at first and work their way up to emacs or vim cause in the real world most people are just changing a line in etc that broke something.