I used to use this before I switched away from VSCode for greener pastures. It was far and away the best option for vim editing. It’s great because you can still make use of any neovim plugins you have without needing extra VSCode extensions.
1. it's just nice to see your selection before u do any action.
2. There's not benefit to the new model, either you like it more or like it less, why does everything have to give a benefit? Maybe it's just about the preference.
3. Helix requires less than 50 Lines of TOML to configure, to me this is well worth it, as with neovim, i easily needed like ... 300 Lines of Lua code? Something like this.
I was a big vim user back before VSCode, so I’m happy being back in my obscure editor hole.