I tend to agree, however it took learning about git internals to get to this point. Most developers don't read stuff like that. Also git creators made the mistake of using terms like add and checkout to mean completely different things to older version control systems. I think that's where a lot of the confusion stems from.
over the years, i've learnt that learning to work with vanilla vim commands is the best way to go. any editing plugin feature is just an extra command character or two away if you know the basics very well. this means i am instantly productive in any ide that has a vim plugin.
in fact i'd extend that to bash as well. i only use very minimal configuration these days.