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I'm definitely not a vim master but I've made an active choice to avoid 4j style movement. The main benefit of vim, for me, is the mind-body connection. Commands are either muscle memory or like saying a short phrase in my head so it flows out naturally. Counting lines before executing breaks that natural flow

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For more than a few lines I'll go to a spot and mark it (ma), navigate to the next spot and delete to the mark (d'a).

That's how I thought of it anyway, not delete n lines. Delete from here to here.

What if you use relative line numbers though?

That could help and I have experimented with relative line numbers but have decided against it. I want to see absolute line numbers for matching up error messages and I find it's easier to communicate in absolute line numbers when doing code reviews or pair programming

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