Also note that modal editing isn't for everyone. I'm happy to learn hotkeys, I even got far enough to build musclememory for vim's normal mode. What never went away though was my confusion about what mode the editor is in. I would constantly input text in normal mode and input commands in insert mode, leading to costly mistakes that tore down any speed advantage vim would have given me. I really tried, but never built muscle memory for this kind of context switching[^1], maybe it's an ADHD thing.

These days I'm on Emacs with an always improving custom command scheme of non-modal but context sensitive commands that do similar things in all major and minor modes.

[^1]: Same situation with tmux which is almost a requirement for the typical vim workflow, and adds another layer of mode switching on top. On Emacs window management is included and so are remote shells/editing, so no need for the tmux<->editor context switch.