[jek0]

"vim only provides basic text editing functionality by default"

It looks like someone has never read the vim manual.

[tasuki]

Yes, and at the same time the author claims: "Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed"

So vim both only provides basic text editing functionality and is harder to use than Ox?

Vim has a special "insert mode" in which the keyboard is repurposed for entering text. I don't think that's a very hard concept to grasp.