The first UNIX system I learned on had pico, the editor nano was modeled after. I personally found it intuitive enough, but too simple in the long run. Editors like nano or DOS EDIT are great for light use, but you reach their limitations pretty fast if you do a lot of serious editing.
Several years ago the better micro was born then packaged, I’ve used since. It has more features than edit like highlighting, though missing a menu. That’s good enough I think.
In some situations like constrained environments (openwrt) I use nano with CUA keybindings because micro is too big.
Just checked, key bindings are similar but largely wrong... focused on the Function keys.
Edit: just read https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-... and it seems that all 32bit windows versions had edit. I was probably using Windows XP 32 the last time I remember using edit