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> - Emacs/vim's fantastic buffer/window concept, where open files are not owned by their windows. I miss this whenever I use anything else.

Why is this useful? I basically treat my nvim buffers like windows. What am I missing?

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Because you can look at and maniuplate the same file n different ways. Something I sorely lack when using e.g. visual studio

I guess I need to experiment with this. I'm fairly conservative when it comes to experimenting with files since I find it always ends up triggering .swp file recoveries, which is not just annoying[1], but has also resulted in me accidently losing work before.

[1] Why can't we just delete the extra file after we recovered the .swp!

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