[cassepipe]

Reaching for the escape key with your left pinkie while trying to keep your fingers on the home row hundreds of times a day in order not to have to dislocate your right pinkie to reach the arrows is is the idea of the century

Snark apart, praising vim without mentioning escape key remapping is criminal imho

[hollasch]

To each their own, but to me the only key easier to hit than the Escape key is the space bar, and returning to the home row is like a 20ms move. On the other hand, if you're actually using control keys in the (now standard) lower left and lower positions, then we're just on different planets. :)

[lenkite]

I heard that IBM got the PC keyboard positioning wrong. You can remap this in both macOS and Windows and Linux so its not a big deal anymore. Use Esc<->Capslock and have a gentle vim/neovim existence.

[camgunz]

I don't remap; I use ^[.