[liability]

Vim drops noobs straight into normal mode, meaning the moment they start trying to type they get confused. I know that's what happened to me. The arcane nature of Emacs doesn't make itself apparent nearly so fast.

[JdeBP]

Only if it isn't invoked as "evim", "eview", "vim -y", or "view -y".

[liability]

True, though a noob wouldn't know how to invoke it like that.