I’d like actual examples instead of “I work faster”, something like “I can move straight to the middle of the file with 7mv” or “I can keep 4 different text snippets in memory and paste each with a number+pt, like 2pt”, things that you actually use somewhat frequently instead of what you can do, but probably only did once.
I don’t use VIM but I once tried and although it may be faster in the long run, You’re absolutely not productive when learning it and it made me give up.
That’s fair, but in a week you’re effective, and after a month everything else seems wrong - like typing with oven mitts on.
But I enjoyed learning vim. It was like learning the controls to a game that I get to play every day. Now ten years later, I’m still finding little tricks and optimisations. I’m still having fun learning vim.
If that doesn’t sound fun to you, then I get why it isn’t worth it, though.
I wish it worked better on non ANSI USA layouts. So many commands are just impossible to do on my keyboard. So I gave up quite quickly after I found that out.