Have you tried evil-mode (Emacs VI Layer - E.V.I.L.), an implementation of the vim-bindings in Emacs? I've heard it works very well.
Or, at least, the Emacs subreddit seems to get a pretty steady flow of people who come from vim and get into Doom Emacs, which has evil-mode (and lots of other stuff) pre-configured and ready to go.
They seem very happy, from reading their reports, anyway.
I’ve heard someone say that Emacs with Evil is a better vim than vim. I’m inclined to agree.
"And they - vim implementations - are always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy...
Except perhaps Emacs' evil-mode, with some users going so far as to claim that it's an even better implementation of vim-bindings than vim!"
:=D
P.S., off the back of your comment, I downloaded and started playing with Doom Emacs last night, as this thread reminded me of how great some people claim Doom and the vim bindings are. My Emacs has been stable for a while, with a basic enough configuration (only a thousand lines hah), so I'm in the mood for playing with some alternatives.
Being able to test very different configs now with "--init-directory" is really a nifty quality of life improvement which I had yet to fully appreciate!
I think Doom is a fantastic way to get started and know what's out there. I do suggest folks to eventually dive into building their own config. Having that much control over your work surface is where Emacs and its users can really shine, I think. It's a commitment though.
Setting up Emacs from scratch is quite the project though if you want all the bells and whistles
Using Emacs with no bells and whistles just for writing is very enjoyable too, though! That's how I started. Within an hour or two I'd removed any visual clutter from the screen, and put on some dark theme (just clicking around the menu bar).
M-x help-with-tutorial (which came up when I first ran it, and I said oh, what's that), and that was me gone!
For weeks and weeks all I did was pump out text files with no formatting, being amazed that I could jump forward and backwards over words, sentences, and lines. It was an absolute joy, with a warm feeling of clarity and clean-ness to it.