[threatofrain]

There are a lot of benefits that people don't need, such as the benefits which are unique to the terminal and somehow not feasible in a GUI. Most people have a work machine that's powerful and can have an editor of their choice installed. Why be constrained to the terminal?

Vim is more important as a way of text manipulation than as a specific program, and projects like NeoVim and Xi make Vim-the-way more portable and accessible. I would welcome editors that have a high-quality Vim experience and also have nice GUI features like mouse-over popups of function signatures, minimaps, or whatever a GUI unconstrained by the terminal can do -- rather than arguing for workarounds or why people don't need these features.