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  • since interface has been designed to be as unfriendly as possible

    No, it hasn’t.

    It (well, vi, which vim is a clone of) has been designed to be a possible interface on a keyboard that doesn’t have arrow keys or other modifier keys than shift. There aren’t that many ways to program a visual text editor when those are your constraints.

    That it’s more productive once you know it is a side-effect.