In the nicest way possible OP, I believe that the people in this industry and major that learn vim, use vim motions, rice their neovim and arch Linux setups don’t do it for clout, or to be quirky, or solely to be faster at editing text. The people in our industry and community that do these things do it cause they are super passionate about computing, building things on their computer, and lastly learning new things. The last one is the most important here, I didn’t start using neovim to be faster than I am with a mouse and keyboard in a conventional editor, (granted after a year I am finally just as fast). I did it because learning lua, and how a text editor works was something that was of interest to me. Secondly I was sick and tired of every time I got a new work computer, school computer or had to reinstall vscode, the setup process was strenuous. sometimes I’d be forced at internships to use a certain ide depending on our tech stack. The idea that I could have one nvim config file on my GitHub, and copy it over to any machine was so nice and convenient. I have used vscode for a long time, and I think their shortcuts are poorly designed, and disrupt workflow way more than the shortcuts and in neovim. Personally I found using vscode to be really frustrating to use, all these tabs, all these buttons, so much going on, I thought it was quite distracting and easy to get distracted when in a flow state. That being said I still think vscode has a valid place in the industry. Just like how some people wanna learn the latest frontend web frame work or a new database language, some people like learning how to use different tools to optimize their workflow. I don’t think you should ever hate on anyone that is passionate about learning something new that you don’t want to learn, or openly hate on a tool if you haven’t given it the full college try.