I cannot understand where does the concept of the Vim learning curve, as something extremely upright, come from. For me the learning curve was this:

I agree that the learning curve for basic vim commands is worth it, because it makes text editing more efficient. This is why whichever text editor I use, it will have “vim mode” turned on.

Macros — very useful feature, much more powerful than macros in Komodo, some ex commands like: s, normal, global.

Perhaps you need this more often than I do, but I hardly ever need to use macros and if needed, this concept is also available in most editors.

The last thing I made with my instance of Vim (which I admit, took me a weekend to setup) is this:

This is really my main concern with using vim. The turnaround time to learn how to implement certain editor features takes too long. Apart from the usefulness of the basic vim commands, most other vim features are usually if not equal, marginally better than other editors at best, but it takes more setup/learning to use them.