When claims like this are made, I'm skeptical people have retrained their minds such that "press this combination of keys repeatedly until the cursor is where you want it to be" is easier and more accurate than "mentally count the number of word boundaries your cursor is away from where you want it to be, then enter the command to get it there".

I don't disagree that vim's movement commands have greater precision, but I find it hard to believe that that precision is actually useful in practice.

EDIT: Oh, my bad, you specifically called out that efficiency is not the actual goal. In which case - yes, for "feeling like a badass", I am wholly on-board :)