Whilst I'm happy to use plain Vim it can be useful if you've customised your own set up and don't want to port it to each server.
For those interest in how use raw Vim as a "fully featured" editor I'd recommend Drew Neil's book,
https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-editio...
http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/bcvi/