[hillbillyjack]

Vim's modes are quite powerful and easy to get used to.

To some extent it is probably people not learning their new editor completely and another part is sometimes the vim-way is just easier/quicker.

Being able to escape insert mode and start modifying the text is great to a vim user things like editing inside quotes `ci"` are easy to do without a mouse, as is moving around the file without leaving home row.