When did you last try Zed? If it was recently then that hasn’t quite matched my experience, for me vim keybindings work quite well. But I did think the same when I first used Zed over a year ago.
Are there any modal editors that are not file-based? Maybe it would be better to say this is a problem with its file-based editor emulation?
{
"context": "Editor && vim_mode == insert",
"bindings": {
"j k": "vim::NormalBefore"
}
}