Jon (the awesome developer of ViEmu) posted an article to his site yesterday.  I think the title describes it pretty well:

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Anyone that has ever worked with (since my Spartan days) knows that I have a special place in my heart for ViM.  All I can say is that I am so much more productive using ViM / ViEmu than I am with a standard text editor.

Don’t forget to check out his ViM cheat sheets while you’re there.