> It seems to me there is a lot of VIM vocabulary that is very different from what is common on the desktop today.
The operating word here being "today". Vim - and Emacs - are relics from the era when computing was much more saner than it is today. They're old, older than most of us here. It's not that hard to learn their vocabulary once you understand all those words are not weird, it's how things were called back before the industry did another circle and reinvented some wheels again.
Not really. Unix is the archetypical virus on the history of computing. Whether a cause or just a symptom, it's part of the problem of the current state of computing industry.
The operating word here being "today". Vim - and Emacs - are relics from the era when computing was much more saner than it is today. They're old, older than most of us here. It's not that hard to learn their vocabulary once you understand all those words are not weird, it's how things were called back before the industry did another circle and reinvented some wheels again.