I've been using Vim for over 10 years. The first few years I used it badly. Later I took time to really learn it. Now I can use it fairly decently, but I still learn new things every now and then.
It feels like a really good investment. It's been around forever, it's gonna be around forever, it's installed on almost all computers, and you're going to be forced to use it at some point or another.
I really enjoy being able to go to any computer and starting up a familiar editor, without installing or configuring stuff. I also use a very vanilla Vim. If a coworker's laptop or some server has a different Vim config than mine, I can usually do vim -u NONE to get back to a familiar place.
if I choose to store them online/cloud encrypted / (edit: encrypt first then upload it) ... there’s always the potential for a very near future breaches or compromises
Does this matter? Say you upload your encrypted photo backup to Mega Upload (or whatever) and some unauthorized person gets a copy of your encrypted data. So? It's encrypted? They can't read or see the data?
Are you worried about state actors breaking the encryption?
I tried a random Writefreely instance and it was extremely barebones and had poor markdown styling. It gave me the impression that Writefreely is more for publishing short stories, rather than technical content.
Yeah, it's a win-win. You get the person off your ass. The other person gets to continue their journey. If you were walking on the sidewalk, you'd move.
Yeah! It's been great for me. No detection issues or weird bugs. The mobile and TV apps are also great!