I agree with most of the post. I use emacs, not because I think there is something fundamentally wrong with vim, but because emacs is a much better fit to how I think. I actually tried to use vim (it might have been elvis, I don't remmeber which distro I was using at the time) in the late 1990s. I used it exclusively for two weeks, learned all the common commands, but then went back to emacs. I just could not learn to think in command/append modes. I'd regularly, as in almost every other time I went into command mode, forget to go back into append or insert mode and lose whatever I typed before I either noticed or typed "a" or "i".