The laziness level that can be achieved with vim's modal editing still surpasses that of most editors. When you're used to vim and you have to use something else, you even become disappointed when you have to reach for the arrow keys. hjkl is far too convenient. Heck, I hardly use backspace anymore even.
Certainly, but then you're spoiled by vim and everything else sucks, or you're trying to find vim-bindings for it. I'd much rather be accustomed to standard bindings that work in most programs and move between them without all the frustration of overly opinionated programs that think their bindings are the best.
Or you can can just appreciate that you get to use one of the best input models only while you're coding, and settle for regular inputs the rest of the time. It's not like you'll forget how to use the arrow keys after learning Vim.
I don't know if I'd call Vim overly-opinionated. It's a legitimately incredible way to work with text.
