I agree, this is why I still use vi :-) Sorry couldn't resist

Yes, the vi family of editors is just as valid a choice as emacs (and have arguably been the better choice for longer, it's just that personally I could never get on with modal editing)

Neovim has been game changing. Literally nothing I miss from VSCode or Jetbrains now

Real programmers use butterflies

Yada yada yada, M-x butterfly.