It's not absurd. It very often does "vim" better, I'm using "vim" here as a verb, apply whatever meaning your heart desires. Even when it comes to some practical text manipulation like I once demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UieaT354GkU - I needed to replace every single occurrence of UUID in the file, generating a new one in the stead.

My friend later did try (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FbnQCNe3YY) to replicate the same thing in Vim.

Of course, it's all subjective - some may like Emacs way, some Vim. But guess what? I'm helping now that friend of mine to learn Doom.