I spend more time reading and debugging code than writing it.

Vim and other terminal tools make doing complex text manipulation easy, but I rarely need to do anything complex when writing code.

I also work from different machines and ephemeral vms regularly and don’t want to spend time setting things up each time.

I can install vscode and the one lsp plugin I need in under a minute. In contrast, Vim doesn’t even have line number enabled by default.