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Conversely, as multi-decade Unix user, when I type in "vi" I want to get Vi, I do not want Vim starting.

If I wanted Vim I would have typed in "vim".

Why?

For me personally, the godawful default syntax highlighting is … quite unfortunate

As per another reply: all the unneeded crayon colours that are displayed when all I want to do is edit a couple of lines in a plain text file.