[Zelphyr]

The answer to your first question is: Yes.

As you say, there are some really great editors like VS Code available these days and I have used many, if not most of them but I keep coming back to Vim. The reason is that I feel so much more productive in it. I can do things with three simple keystrokes that are quite a bit more involved in other editors. And that’s pure, stock Vim without any plugins. It’s astounding what I can accomplish with the addition of some plugins.

Really, in the end, it’s just another tool that fits me well. It may not fit you as well and that’s ok. But there is definitely still a place for old-school editors like Vim and Emacs in a modern developer’s toolkit.

As an aside; I don’t know why OP was downvoted so heavily. There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking a question such as this. I have to account for the possibility that it was edited to be less caustic by the time I read it but, if that wasn’t the case, I think all who downvoted it should re-evaluate their decision to do so. We should celebrate the desire to understand something and, from what I can see, that’s all this person is trying to do.