I guess the reasoning is switching to a modal editor takes more to get used to than switching to another non-modal one. Though you can get Emacs key bindings for Vim, surely?

> Though you can get Emacs key bindings for Vim, surely?

Why would anyone want this?

EDIT: Not meaning to be abrasive. But by most accounts the strength of vim is its keybindings whilst the strength of emacs is everything about its ecosystem. Hence evil mode for emacs is a thing.