You've proved my point. In your words Vi-style editing is "natural", "easy" and "fast". Vi-style is better than Emacs-style because the latter "do hurt my wrists", thus discarding the only worthy contender.
The only reason you are using another editing model is because you've found the tools offering Vi-style editing to be lacking in important areas.
Sublime may be better than Vim as an overall editor in your particular case even when the editing model of Sublime is less efficient than the one of Vim. We agree on this: we don't live in a perfect world. Indeed, even Vi-style editing is not perfect, as it was designed for a different keyboard than those which are commonplace nowadays.
RIght, right. Unfortunately I can't convince my brain to accept that Sublime+Vintage works like Vim. I need to be in Vim to trigger the Vim mode of thinking in my brain...
I'm curious though: I thought it was Emacs that had a special keyboard in the old days. What do you think could be easier in Vim with a different keyboard? (I can only think of ESC position).
Not much, actually, besides : which was unshifted. But we shouldn't overlook people who try to use Vi(m) on keyboards other than the US one. For instance, on the Italian layout, / and ? are both shifted, and on different keys, thus causing their relationship to be less intuitive, and further from the home row.
The only reason you are using another editing model is because you've found the tools offering Vi-style editing to be lacking in important areas.
Sublime may be better than Vim as an overall editor in your particular case even when the editing model of Sublime is less efficient than the one of Vim. We agree on this: we don't live in a perfect world. Indeed, even Vi-style editing is not perfect, as it was designed for a different keyboard than those which are commonplace nowadays.