Don’t use them if you don’t like them.

I use vim keys everywhere I can, so from my standpoint “stupid” UI choices are the ones that don’t support modality. I would really prefer having vim keys optional built ins everywhere. Your situation is simpler though - you can just avoid using vim or whatever, there’s plenty of other options available.

Also calling personal preferences of lots of people “stupid” is far from reasonable. I’ve met a lot of smart folks who used vim and emacs, so from my personal experience it’s not correct.

But that's the thing: in my opinion, this is exactly not the Linux philosophy. Maybe the majority of Linux users want it to behave like macOS and it will go there someday. And at this point I will move to the next thing closest to what I believe is the Linux philosophy.

But right now, I would say simply: "if you want the macOS philosophy, use macOS". And don't get me wrong: macOS is great.