> The power of text-based manipulation is that you don't have to learn a different set of hotkeys for different types of material.

And the weakness of text-based manipulation is that it views code as characters rather than as semantic data.

Modern IDEs either have their own semantic code operations, or use language servers to actually understand the code rather than just work with character strings. This is vastly more reliable when doing refactoring or project-wide navigation. Text-based approaches are a crude hack by comparison.