I really don't get the exit vim meme anymore.
It's just two key presses, trivial. When you hit <C-c> it tells you exactly what to do. Anyone stuck in vom either does not read or has no idea how to use a terminal.
Vim is unintuitive. If you are a new linux CLI user and follow some tutorials that tells you to run vim, modify something then save and exit, it can be daunting.
I hope the first one. But the effect is real, stuff you know already was easy and stuff you don't is hard. I'm feeling it with my migration to proxmox, it's hard.