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Hey, I read man pages all that time, Vi/Vim are just unreasonably complicated. Sure, those commands had sense when there were no key modifiers available on keyboards, but in this day and age, to not at least add some shortcuts to be part of the program by default... thanks, but if I have to read a man page to exit a terminal text editor, that's just not really my cup of tea.
I don't know when or why I learned vi, but once I used it for that short period of time I got used to it and it's just muscle memory for me now. 99% of the dime I'm using x to delete text, yy (or #yy) and dd (or #dd) or p/P to copy/delete/paste lines, or :s/oldtext/newtext/g, or :wq or :x to write and quit. That's like basically all I ever use VI for and it's quick and easy to do. Once you know it, like anything, it's quite a nice editor. Of course it can do a lot more than I typically use it for.
If you think it's complicated, think about the first time you had to type sudo apt-get install firefox instead of googling Firefox and double clicking an executable.
You just kindly described why no one ever should use Vim :D
Using xyzbdvefsisgshs to copy-paste a line is not the level of convenience someone expects from a modern tool
Convenience is often a tradeoff for power. Nobody is claiming that vi and its derivatives are convenient, they're saying it's powerful.
Personally I'm much much faster using neovim than I could be using something like vscode. There's a myriad of other benefits that modal text editing brings to the table, not having to use a mouse and constantly switch back and forth being a big one for me.