Some tools are closer to being identities than others. Being a 'vim user' is more like being a Dvorak user, it lives in muscle memory. 'vim user' is overloaded here, it colloquially means "user of the vim text editing language" rather than (just) "user of the text editor, vim".
I'm about intermediate at wielding vim, and the VSCode plugin implements enough of the language for me. But I'm fluent enough that being deprived of it is unpleasant, and I won't willingly edit text using a program which doesn't implement a decent vim mode.
It's not like computer languages or applications: the right number of text editing command-languages to be good at, like the right number of keyboard layouts, is one. Typing on a keyboard, and editing text, is my job. I don't want to waste time and productivity on learning several ways to do it, these are means to an end.
This being HN, someone might come up with some valid reasons to master more than one keyboard layout, particularly a "weird" one while retaining fluency in a standard one. Granted, call it a concession to an imperfect world.
Funnily enough the main keyboard I use is a split, columnar, Dvorak board. I also use a lot of tools that people like to attach to their identity: SwayWM (tiling wm user), Lisp and Scheme (Lisper and Schemer), GNU/Linux... I do not see these at all as a part of my identity. I think making these a part of my creates an aversion to change, and therefore progress.
Historically I have even used distros that people heavily identify with and call "end game distros", like Arch Linux, Gentoo, and NixOS. The former two I used for years each. I eventually have landed on GNU Guix, since for me it has worked better than anything else I've tried for my needs.
I really mean it when I say we should identify with our tools less. You may consciously identify with tools that you want to solidify as a part of yourself even with the potential aversion to progress which that may include. I can't think of any tools I would do that for though.
I'm about intermediate at wielding vim, and the VSCode plugin implements enough of the language for me. But I'm fluent enough that being deprived of it is unpleasant, and I won't willingly edit text using a program which doesn't implement a decent vim mode.
It's not like computer languages or applications: the right number of text editing command-languages to be good at, like the right number of keyboard layouts, is one. Typing on a keyboard, and editing text, is my job. I don't want to waste time and productivity on learning several ways to do it, these are means to an end.
This being HN, someone might come up with some valid reasons to master more than one keyboard layout, particularly a "weird" one while retaining fluency in a standard one. Granted, call it a concession to an imperfect world.