[chongli]

That may be true because 1980s UI scientists were most concerned with building efficient and intuitive UIs for the vast majority of people, not for 1%ers.

I know that I, personally, would not have been able to take some of the notes I took in university if it weren’t for vim and its affordances. Trying to keep up with a fast-writing math professor while typing a complete set of notes in LaTeX would not have been possible otherwise!