[_0w8t]

vi-style editing is fast only if one can touch-type. If not, it is not faster. Its plus is the consistency of keybindings across platforms, but even then on international keyboard layouts it is not ideal (or just bad) and requires a lot of customization which may be highly non-trivial in vim modes for various IDEs.

So if one already uses vim, then sure vim-mode in IDE is nice to have, but if not, I suggest not to bother.

[shiohime]

Not gonna lie, it really blew my mind when I was onboarding junior engineers that not every engineer knows how to touch-type. Frankly, I had never even heard of the terminology "touch-type" until that moment, and basically thought that if you can't do this (in most cases) you never learned to type. Not trying to be rude in any way, any idea how common this is? Maybe more common internationally than in the US?