Vim is all about chaining small commands together to perform complex operations, like building a pipeline in UNIX. You start off learning a few basic commands, then as your vocabulary increases you can construct increasingly complex tools just by hitting a few keys. A Windows veteran hearing about head, grep and cat for the first time might think "I can do all of that in notepad, this UNIX thing is a waste of time"... then they watch a UNIX greybeard build a pipeline in seconds that automates a hour-long workflow of clicking and form filling.
There are criticisms you could make that would read as fair, "many common editing operations are more accessible in foo", "features in foo are more discoverable", "the learning curve in foo is shallower", "I don't think it's worth the time investment to become proficient in vim/emacs" (but you would be wrong!).