One of the last straws for me was that when scrolling down, the cursor moved to stay on the screen. This is one of the quirks of it being a TUI originally. (There is of course a package to for this functionality, but I found it would break frequently.)
As I move through the document, I already have the location of the cursor origin saved in a register and can jump there, or any of several other locations with a single keypress.
I've always considered the mouse & menu system to be an emergency backup for beginners who have hit a wall. They will probably never be first class citizens.
What editor do you use?
Perhaps, but ideally you'd want your on-ramp experience (or your gateway experience) to be smooth, rather than a full cold-turkey.
I was attracted to emacs because I like writing lisp and I hoped that the high level of customizability would let me smooth over any rough edges. But even though Sublime is not very flexile at all, it’s closer to what I want than I was able to script emacs to be.
I mean, to each their own, but saying this like it's bad is just baffling to me.
Point being that I suspect this is very much a learned behavior and you can grow to like either way. Not that one is superior to the other.