I used Emacs before I moved over to vim, early on when I was at Uni. It was pretty good. I was fast with it. The movements were good. But definitely finger fatigued out pretty quickly and said I need something less holdy and more tappy. So I tried vim, it was a blessing. The motions were awesome. But I just couldn't stay away from the idea of Kakoune's paradigm. And then I revisited Helix again and noticed it had Kakoune as one of its inspirations, I just had to give it an honest go, and it's already been two years soon. I've barely made any configurations past the first week of setting up LSPs for work. It's literally production ready, as I use it exclusively for work and at home.

I also just love how the keybindings make more sense. Instead of vim's verb-motion/object paradigm, you have a selection-verb paradigm in Helix, where you can see what you are about to change before doing it. No more re-doing your motion or macro or some shit just because you made a typo. It's great. And I'm a (n)vim user of at least a decade before switching. I started with Kakoune before Helix though. That was a great transition.