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Vim (or emacs, or any other advanced text editor) is much easier to use than nano when you need to do something more complex than type couple of lines.
And how often does that happen in the real world?
VIM may have been a very useful tool 20 or 30 years ago, but today it's nothing else but a tool for one's sense of superiority. It's the vinyl of editors.
If you have to type that much code in a terminal, your infrastructure is outdated. Simple as that.
I actually use VIM bindings in PyCharm, slightly cursed but actually works really well and meshes fairly nicely with the other IDE shortcuts. Being able to use it in any terminal is a nice bonus.