Felt more responsive than neovim/neovide, and out-of-box was great.
However, while the selection > verb scheme conceptually made sense, I noticed it took longer to do many basic text editing functions than it would with vim bindings. Perhaps others had a different experience?
For basic edits it's roughly on par now for me (maybe a bit slower?); but then Helix has really neat tree-sitter integration, so as I'm getting more and more used to that, I find myself jumping around code faster and with more precision.
I also never have these moments of fat-fingering a key and then have vim go nuts on me. Like I suddenly deleted half the function and ended up in some mode I've never heard of while doing a recursive recording. ... just mentioning that because I believe (but not sure) that it's because of this selection > verb scheme that I don't ever see that happening in Helix :)