[drabbiticus]

In general this author is comparing robust vim solutions with golf-style solution in Kakoune (i.e. assuming the example is the only thing in the buffer).

I'm not saying multi-select and Kakoune's predicate-then-verb (instead of vim's verb-then-predicate) aren't cool, it's just that he has very strawman comparisons because the vim solutions could often be phenomenally simplified if the same assumptions were made in the comparison.

OTOH, I learned some cool Vim features from those incantations that may be handy in a pinch someday.