In my case it's not a sense of pride. I can't use anything other than Vim because I keep accidentally putting random incantations into my word documents.

"There once was a dduuuZQ:q!"

I mean, yeah, kind of. In the same way pilots fly planes out of a stubborn sense of pride for knowing what all the flight deck controls do.

I honestly learned it just because I hated having to change hand position to use a mouse.

It's just convenient that it's pre-installed on many servers.
So I can use it now everywhere with my stubborn sense of pride for finally learning the key combinations.

I am faster, more comfortable, and more productive in Vim. I use the same keybindings in all my editors and IDEs. It's okay for people to have different preferences.

What do you mean? The vim users know their key combinations pretty well, that's kind of the point of vim.

That's funny, I feel the same way about Excel users.

Somehow it seems this would apply to any linux user

It's not pride, it's just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.

But it's really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text

I just use vi

Is that stupid? It's all I ever bothered to learn, hasn't failed me yet. Now I'm not some big time linux guru but I'm a sysadmin and regularly find myself elbow deep in a CLI for stuff.

When you only need to hammer a nail every once in a while, any hammer will do. When you're a roofer, you better have a roofing hammer.

If you don't spend your life in a terminal and just need to edit a file, vim isn't for you. If you want to learn complex strings of arcane wizardry to not only make your life easier but amaze your underlings, use vim.

There is no sense of pride. Every text/code editor has key combinations that many users will learn eventually. Vim has easier key bindings.