Vim&#x27;s default are indeed dumb, but what you described is not a vim-specific problem. Walk into any room full of coders and try to use their computers; you&#x27;ll discover tons of weirdness that can&#x27;t be explained by anything except by a desire to be treated like a princess.* Things like rebinding basic shortcuts, reversing the scroll direction (Mac users will get this), swapping Cmd&#x2F;Ctrl, using some obscure shell or even infecting other people&#x27;s machines with some haphazardly scp&#x27;d dotfiles.<p>This kind of overcustomization is fine if you live in a basement and work on a project alone. As soon as you become a part of a team, please stop. You&#x27;re making cooperation unnecessarily hard and spending company time on an optimization that isn&#x27;t.<p>*I sometimes joke that coders who refuse to conform to the industry standards should wear a tiara as an indication they are, indeed, unique snowflakes free from the usual social expectations. It seems to work.