[Zababa]

> barely more competent than a 3 year old using a computer for the first time because there is only vi and not Emacs,

I think this is very exaggerated. I have git alias to "g" to save a few keystrokes, docker to "d", use a lot fd instead of find as it's better/more intuitive. I have a VSCode with the Go LSP. Sometimes I'm on systems without all of that, with plain vi/nano, and yes I'm slower but far from a "3 year old using a computer for the first time". I don't lose the speed I got from my experience of using a computer suddenly. I lose some of it, but not that much.

I would even say that it's more about managing emotions (I really really really don't like tools that don't work how I want to/needing to write more than I actually need) than raw speed, even if I also get raw speed.

> Just open a vanilla laptop and guess what, it already has "your" config since they are all the defaults! Spend that mental energy and time on something else and get stuff done.

It's like a few hours and I change laptops less than once a year. Also that's not actually true because you'll probably don't have Git installed, or a LSP, or the ssh config for your VPS, or your passwords, or any other stuff that you need.