Specifically the idea that people generally just ignore existing versions of packages and make their own has never been the case, especially compared to other editors (even VSCode).
> There are popular elisp packages lots of people use. But except for Magit, nerds are alarmingly apt to replace them with their own shinier versions (and then to show them off, transitioning to the spore-forming phase of the elisp lifecycle). Everything in Emacs is malleable.
> Until now, the Achilles heel of Emacs culture has been that, except for Magit, its packages tend to be wretched user experiences. Ugly, slow, and discoverable only after inflicting years of elisp cortical injuries on yourself.
I have never heard of such an editor, and the name is exquisitely unsearchable. Even if I explicitly try to tell the search engine that I'm looking for a text editor that's a variant of vim, I just get results about using vim on a Raspberry Pi.
But you mentioned multiple variants thereof, in the context of a thread about Emacs.
It's highly disingenuous to suppose that this doesn't count.