vim is already too slow (i typically code edit with elvis which is good but not for huge text data files). evil's lagginness is utterly maddenning. and emacs isn't typically installed everywhere. i'm a multi terminal user who typically works remotely via ssh, remote usually being over a gigabit connection. I can probably burst 120+ wpm and yeah watching other people code is typically very painful. And I don't use plugins, thats what a posix shell is for.
If we're being pedantic, Vim isn't installed everywhere either. Vi is, of course, but if you're evangelizing the benefits of the posix shell over vim-specific plugins I can only assume you didn't mean to :%s/vim/vi/ before hitting reply ;-).
