> My point still stands that the community and open architecture are more important than any one editing feature.

No, it doesn't, because it's essentially a matter of opinion, not an objective fact that can be measured and proven. You prefer to have an open architecture and a community of enthusiasts. I prefer to have most of my editor features available out of the box, and modal editors just confuse me.

At the end of the day, developer productivity is not a function of their editor of choice, so what matters is that each developer is comfortable in the environment they work in, whether that be Vim, Emacs, IntelliJ, or VS Code.