[piccadilly]

I love vim more than almost any other software. But it really is not very discoverable 'by accident.' You have to read documentation and grok the system or you don't get much benefit.

Especially at the beginning, when you do something like starting to type words while in normal mode and the screen scrolls and a bunch of crap gets deleted, there isn't any highly visible way to see what happened and it's easy to get discouraged.

Accidents like that might provide motivation to find the correct way, but rarely much information on what to do.

Vim is excellent software and usable (as in easy to actually use, once you are at cruising altitude) but easily discoverable it is not (until you grasp the system's fundamentals, then you don't need to 'discover' much - you just express what you mean to do without needing to memorize 40,000 hand-contorting ctrl-alt-chords, or configure your text editor in LISP)