It's not something about "how my brain works". That's a sneaky way of accusing me of being too dumb to use those editors. But the user interfaces from 35-40 years ago are bad. Objectively. Unless you are using them on the terminals from the 70s or 80s.
I am absolutely not calling you dumb! Emacs doesn't work for my brain at all, but Vim does. There are lots of tools that are made for different kinds of people and they all help us towards getting to a certain result.
I don't think it's fair to say that the user interfaces are bad, though. The defaults may be bare bones, but the point is that they are programmable environments that allow you to tailor them to your needs if you want to.
Ok, I'm sorry but I believe you are incorrect. People do not have different brains that way. Just like they don't have different 'learning styles'. That sort of thing is a discredited myth.
I also think that it is objectively true and not only fair but also important for people to start to point out how bad these interfaces are. At some point traditions start to become a drag on society.
One of the core principles of user interface design is useful defaults. And there are many better modern editors with equal amounts of programmability as well as useable and useful defaults.
I don't understand that line of reasoning, and it seems like you're being obstinate for the sake of being obstinate. I hope you understand that even though you might feel one way, other people may think another and there's no orthodoxy.
Brains do work differently - if they didn't, everyone would learn at exactly the same pace if given exactly the same input, and people would all have the same preferences. There's a reason why the term "neurotypical" exists.
You don't like what I like, and that's fine, but I can tell you that I like the design of older computer systems more than I like the design of modern computer systems. There's a reason why I use the tools I do and why I can write really good software really fast with them.
You can argue that they're dated, and that's fine, but you're arguing that if we like them that we're wrong, and that's not okay.
You are interpreting my statement "brains don't work differently" here in a disengenuous way which is both more narrow and different from the exact context of the discussion.
And suggesting that people who don't appreciate vim are slow learners. Which is not okay.
But I think we can both agree on one thing. Its not productive to continue the discussion.
