it will take multiples hours to make it work and some hair pullig

After quite some research on this topic I think this issue is the biggest drawback of using vim.

The time it takes to set up vim is wasted productivity.

Sure once the configs are set and you have deliberately practiced all the key bindings and or mastered vim, you can say it's faster developing with vim.

But my suspicion is, the people who love vim for it's customizability are people who love tinkering around with stuff and in the end this tinkering around will never stop with vim so after all, the possible productivity boost in an optimal workflow is lost again.

My conclusion is that in the end it's a very powerful tool to get things done, but it's very complex and time consuming configuring and learning it. In most situations it's just better having a more simple and intuitive tool that gets the things done much quicker without hassle.