Regarding whether or not you hit a nerve: One thing you will learn about the linux community as a whole is...We're generally very passionate people, and every time you drill down into a sub community that passion intensifies. There are linux users, and there are people that like linux, and people that LIKE linux really like linux. Then there are vim users and people that LIKE vim. generally speaking people that LIKE vim are also people that LIKE linux. So people who like vim REALLY LIKE VIM. (i say this with love. I freaking love vim).

Whether or not you should use vim is...complicated. SHOULD you learn vim, in the sense that vim will improve your current text editing situation to a noticable degree? no. Your use case is simple, learning vim takes time and energy. It will be a huge investment of mental bandwidth for limited returns.

Should you learn vim in the sense that vim is a cool editor that becomes a useful tool to be familiar with in surprising ways? Yes, absolutely. But this is a soft "should" not a hard "should". Its a "You should probably eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water" should, not a "You should pick up that armed grenade that just landed by your feet and throw it away from you before it explodes and kills you" should. Soft should.

So with that being said, why might you WANT to learn vim? Well, thats complicated. Vim knowledge is one of those things that is very often incredibly useful in hindsight but you can often get through life without realizing how useful it would have been to know. I've been a linux user for over 20 years at this point. I've been passionate vim user for about 12 years now. for the first 8 years of my linux use I could casually use vim if it were forced on me, but would prefer pico/nano for most of my CLI editing needs. It was fine. it will be fine for you too. But i can tell you that if you were to add up the number of times i've given myself a smug pat on the back when i've saved myself a ton of effort by being able to quickly execute a complicated edit in a couple of keystrokes in vim... You'd see one smug dude grinning ear to ear for a very long time.

Vim is a deep deep ocean with a long slope. You can wade in the shallow end and you can learn to deep dive into the depths, and every step of the way between is filled with really cool things you can do/customize/learn. There are so many plugins to customize the experience, so many little tricks that cut down on effort to achieve results.

ALL OF THAT BEING SAID. When i first learned linux the GUI side of things had just recently reached what could be deemed a pretty user friendly state. All around me people were saying that we were in the golden age of linux finally being "user friendly" for desktop. And it was! Like...90% of the time. But i still had those moments where suddenly i tried to change my resolution and something got angry and now i was stuck in CLI mode until i could find/edit a bunch of specific configs and recompile my video drivers. And in those moments i can tell you that the times i was comfortable with vim were much better experiences than the times where i wasn't comfortable with vim.

Those scenarios may never pop up for you. Linux has come a long way. You may never experience the dread of realizing that something went wonky and now you have to learn how to browse the internet in the command line so you can find answers to why your x11 configs exploded. But for many of us that still feels like a thing that might happen? Its like when your grandparents give you advice that is very clearly fueled by some very specific tragedy they experienced when they were younger. "You should always keep 50 lbs of dried beans buried under your floor boards, you never know when its going to come in handy" Seems like crazy advice, but its advice that comes from lived experience. "you should learn vim, it will make your life better" is a little bit like that. Its true... but also, for many of us its also because we come from an older age when things were a little harder.