Vim might be hard, but besides jokes about "how to quit it", it makes much more sense than Emacs.
Emacs key combinations are weird. Discoverability is low. Even Vim will now tell you how to quit if you Ctrl-C it.
Meanwhile I have opened Emacs and I'm trying to quit it (spoiler: Ctrl-x Ctrl-c). Some things are actually interesting and it tries to help at first but then it goes back quickly into emacs-babble that doesn't help much.
The case for vim is simple: a quick editing of a file when you might not have a window manager up or on a terminal.
I don't see many reasons to learn Emacs when VSC, Atom or other editors exist.
Emacs key combinations are weird. Discoverability is low. Even Vim will now tell you how to quit if you Ctrl-C it.
Meanwhile I have opened Emacs and I'm trying to quit it (spoiler: Ctrl-x Ctrl-c). Some things are actually interesting and it tries to help at first but then it goes back quickly into emacs-babble that doesn't help much.
The case for vim is simple: a quick editing of a file when you might not have a window manager up or on a terminal.
I don't see many reasons to learn Emacs when VSC, Atom or other editors exist.