We can all agree that the UNIX philosophy is powerful. Having a uniform interoperability mechanism (e.g.: stdin/stdout/stderr, exit codes) helps integrate different tools easily. I use shell commands to get things done often.

But that doesn't necessarily negate what I said: having a complete toolchain with a complete set of capabilities is the end goal. How you achieve that is means towards an end. If you achieved it with a TUI editor, good.

But there's a subculture in the TUI editor world where the end goal is often the prestige of being a TUI editor user rather than how capable the tooling makes you. And the situation in the wild is that most of these TUI users have a sub-optimal development experience that causes them to push more defects, because even though you could integrate LSP, a linter, etc... a lot of them don't.

With respect to when vim was invented, you have a supercomputer now. You may be solving a performance problem you don't have.

If editing with a minimal experience is a deep part of who you are, yet you are not going to pay for the cost of detecting and correcting preventable problems which can cost the company thousands to millions of dollars... maybe you are not acting in the best interest of your development org, your colleagues, your career or your family even. What do we call a person that exhibits that behavior?