Well I don’t use vim, but I wouldn’t call it “unnecessary complexity”. Modal editing has actual benefits that some people like enough to make the tradeoff.
Assuming it exists for no reason just because you don’t know what those benefits are, and that everyone else must just be stupid, is arrogance on your part.
Assuming it exists for no reason just because you don’t know what those benefits are, and that everyone else must just be stupid, is arrogance on your part.