I don’t know what you mean by invoking Vim here. Among text editors, there’s nothing particularly special about Vim in its functionality (what you can do with it), it just presents commands in a slightly different way that makes it more efficient when you’re used to it. (I say this as a devoted Vim user for over fifteen years.) This, on the other hand, is focusing on a tiny piece of the functionality of graphics editors, exposing the ability to edit path data as a text/graphic hybrid, a mode not supported in the slightest by any graphics editor that I can think of. It’s functionally radical (it makes novel things possible or feasible), which Vim never was, is or will be.

Is there some other axis you have in mind that I’m not seeing?