Agreed evil in emacs is very good. It is the best vim emulator I've ever used and is even better than vim in instances (like when it shows you everything you are replacing as you type the replace command).

Lately though, after near a decade of using vim, I've been trying to unlearn vim. Many editors provide easy ways to navigate, search and replace the way you do in vim 80% of the time without all the baggage that modes bring. The baggage that vim creates is muscle memory training to navigate with hjkl which is incompatible with non-vim input boxes. I'm also not a fan of the vim source code or its creator and it may be too late for me to care about neovim.

Another negative aspect of vim is that at least in myself and maybe in others it leads to an unearned increase level of engineering confidence as you master an arguably useless, esoteric skillset that doesn't translate into better understanding of basic computer science topics. Vim does help improve regular expression familiarity, but that may be it.

I wasn't much a fan last time I tried it. If you know more than the very basic vim movements, you'll find they start conflicting with the emacs keybindings; and it's frustrating to remember which one does which.

In emacs i just gave up and tried to learn vanilla emacs even though i am a vim user.

Its wonderful what?