Learning curves are uncomfortable, so by your logic we should all always take the path of least resistance and use the tool that makes things easy up front without considering the long term benefits of using something like Vim or Emacs. I find this to be counterproductive to having a great career as a software engineer.

Rapidly assimilating difficult to understand concepts and technologies is an imperative skill to have in this field. Personally, I find the whole notion of Vim being difficult to learn, or not "ready out of the box" perplexing. Writing some code that's a few hundred lines or less, where it's mostly just importing git repos, is easy. Vim has superb documentation. How hard must regular programming be if it's difficult to just understand how to configure a text editor?