I was hoping to get all the same key commands from spacemacs in vim. This would be useful for me but it was anything but that.
If you want an extensible editor, use emacs. If you want a vi-like extensible editor, use spacemacs (or just evil-mode on its own). If you want a lean editor, use vim. Torturing vim (and writing tortured code to torture vim) into a simulacrum of emacs just doesn't make sense to me.