Look. In our field of software crafting and Computer Science, conflicting ideas and principles frequently arise, especially when balancing competing concerns. We often need to weigh out performance against readability, abstraction and efficiency, flexibility over simplicity, security vs. usability, consistency over pragmatism, etc.

Yet, it's relatively rare for ideas (especially good ones) to become completely invalidated or rendered totally obsolete. Because ideas often retain their value in specific contexts.

I already told you my take on the idea of Vim and modality, it's a wonderful, beautiful, powerful, and pragmatic model. Now, Emacs builds on the cornerstone of another incredibly powerful idea - the idea of practical notation for lambda calculus, which is known as Lisp. Lisp probably can be crowned as one of the most important ideas in computer science. It's just hard to think of anything more influential than Lisp. Any programmer who dismisses the idea of Lisp based on one concrete implementation of it is misguided.

At some point, after many cycles of frustration, amazement, inspiration and awe you will learn to appreciate certain ideas. I'm not selling you Emacs or Vim here - not one concrete implementation of a concept. I'm just trying to tell you - some ideas are worth learning more, before dismissing them as needless or impractical.