[tgb]

I never use the counts (repeat N times) except for the very simple 55G to go to line 55. It's not useful. But the rest of vim is. I think of it like a chess board. A queen has more moves available than a king. Does that make it harder to move to a certain square with the queen than with the king? Not really, they're both pretty straight forward, if you're not trying to achieve the minimal edit distance to do so. You make big edits when it's obvious and just do smaller edits when it's not. The only commands I have to plan out are search-and-replaces.