It's fine if you only use your own machine. I suppose having accounts on other boxes is less common nowadays, but there's much less guarantee to find your comfort editor there.
I first ran into nano when I gave Gentoo a try. I had to edit a few config files, so I ran vi... no vi. Emacs? No Emacs. Well, shit, what am I supposed to do? So I went back a bit and read more carefully, apparently there was a thing called nano.So I ran that. Ew. It was a clone of an old DOS editor of all things. What kind of lunatic had ported that? Anyway I managed to do my edits with it, added normal editors to the system and was on my way.It was also the last time I used it.
So new, as in, it has been available forever, just not on google phones. But every other manufacturer has done it at one point or another in the last ten years if not more.
It's fine if you only use your own machine. I suppose having accounts on other boxes is less common nowadays, but there's much less guarantee to find your comfort editor there.
Also a 30 year+ linux/unix user.