[lucky_cloud]

vimtutor is free because vim is free

There are tons of books and other resources for learning vim that are not free. I'm not sure why you would find that surprising.

[urthor]

I own said books. Used NeoVim for years.

Said books are genuinely useful, mostly.

Drew Neil's explanation and POV on how to approach Vim, gradually assembling all Vim commands into repeatable period commands. Followed by bundling those commands into recordings with q.

Highly endorse Drew Neil. Is incredibly useful.

This website offers little more than vimtutor with fancy graphics.