I want to like it, it's much snappier than vim, but:

I hate selecting lines up. Down xxx is fine. But to go up I have to do x alt; v k. This would be shift+v k in vim.

I often use } { to navigate the file in vim. In hx it's ] p which is very awkward for the fingers. The auto selection makes it hard to read once I use ] p.

Pasting does not behave like vim, often have to click o first then p.

I have to often press ; to unselect just to be able to insert after I navigate to a character with F f t T.

Can't copy from documentation. Can't create files in the explorer.

It feels like much more work to use hx keybindings than vim.

What I love:

Hints whenever you press a key allow you to learn keybinds quickly.

Very quick.

Built in search, file picker, lsp rust out of the box.

this doesn’t address all your concerns but i use “X” to select lines above:

[keys.select] X = "select_line_above"