Haha. I spent a significant amount of time getting vim keybinds everywhere, and eventually had to make exceptions for certain software. But, I had my share of making exceptions I guess and got frustrated when I couldn’t map Win+L in Windows to anything and I decided to solve it once and for all. Got a QMK programmable keyboard and now I use hjkl everywhere I would use arrow keys. Did it save me time? No. After 8 months of usage on split keyboard I am back at my original speed and don’t need a cheatsheet for my symbols layer, but it made me less frustrated and feel more free. I don’t need a AHk script or key remapping and their restrictions, this is wayy easieer especially with live VIA configurator.

That's not true at all. Many readline and terminal based clients support vi bindings, you just have to enable them. e.g. stuff like psql.

The shells themselves also support vi binding.

Outside of the terminal tools like Vimium add support to browsers and many other interfaces.

I learned vi key bindings in rogue, hack, and moria (before numpads were common for that binding to be default) before I learned them in vi.

Thankfully my work applies inside vi.