Comment by lotw_dot_site

Isn't the reason why people gravitate to standard utilities such as emacs and vim largely because they simply can't cope with all of the shiny graphical bloat while they are trying to wrack their brains coming up with some new kind of thing or another? I use vim, and I've spent countless hours of my life trying to write a new kind of vim with it. (See: https://lotw.site/shell, then enter "import fs && vim" at the prompt.)