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That being said I adopted emacs style key bindings which I use continuously for the most common editing things. I find this is really the best bang for the buck and best of "both" worlds!
Eventually you'll have to learn through experimentation what works for you. Will take 5 to 10 years.
I have projects like that, i.e. have been scratching my own itch. Sadly none of them have taken off financially or otherwise despite the great effort.
If I had to start a business/project just for "fast growth" I'd be totally clueless how to ago about it?
Is it just about picking the "hottest shit" whatever that is at the moment and trying to ride that wave?
IMHO the best bang for buck that you get with these editors comes from learning just a handful of commands for the most common stuff, i.e. open/close/save, move caret, cut/copy/paste/, switch between buffers. So with a more modern editor with emacs/vim like plugin you can have the best of both worlds, i.e. enable fast operations for the common stuff while also having sensible menus etc. for the non-common stuff. If you go "raw" emacs/vim, then everything is cryptic.
Thus, bugs and quality are secondary. Why spend $ on engineering and fixing bugs when you can spend that on marketing for much better ROI.