I've seen a lot of people say this but I dunno. I'm kind of leery of doing something that would cause me to develop problematic muscle memory when typing on normal keyboards, e.g. on other people's machines. I have enough trouble flipping between Mac and Windows keyboard shortcuts already.
I still probably wouldn't want to switch to another keyboard layout like Dvorak, but even that is more because of my personal learning curve and less about using other people's computers.
Who here routinely does a lot of work on other peoples' machines?
Honest question, because I keep hearing this claim re: remapping keys, but I rarely see people working on not their machine in the wild.
Given how germ-infested those things are, I generally don't want to, either.
'kj' is the ideal key combination for changing out of insert mode. Keep your fingers on their home row. Try it and you'll never go back. (Some people like 'jj' or 'jk' and they're fine people, too.)