[piyh]

It's not a crutch, it's the main instrument of discoverability for unfamiliar UIs. By volume, 99.999% of all software is unfamiliar to you.

Microsoft Word is not a crutched version of VIM.

[msla]

> Microsoft Word is not a crutched version of VIM.

No, but Notepad is.

Word is a word processor. Vim is a text editor. They're not the same thing, and they're not interchangeable.