My impression is that most people doesn't even bother to learn the editing part of the IDE properly, and use it mostly like Notepad. Visual Studio editor have ton of shortcuts for faster moving and selecting, Visual Studio Code is even better (vim plugin for most part just introduce modal editing and expose existing functionality), JetBrains IDEs are also full of text editing features. And yet, most people use only cursor keys, enter, backspace/delete and ctrl+x/c/v.
And another unpopular opinion: can we stop talking about hjkl cursor movement like the pinnacle of ergonomics? I get that people are used to that, but the only reason why that keys are chosen is because of that particular terminal used for making ed/vi. If moving the finger to reach movement left is so superior than anything else, default movement keys in games would be asdf, not wasd. hjkl is better than reaching for the arrow keys, but hardly ideal (I remapped arrows to caps lock + ijkl and to me it's way better)
And another unpopular opinion: can we stop talking about hjkl cursor movement like the pinnacle of ergonomics? I get that people are used to that, but the only reason why that keys are chosen is because of that particular terminal used for making ed/vi. If moving the finger to reach movement left is so superior than anything else, default movement keys in games would be asdf, not wasd. hjkl is better than reaching for the arrow keys, but hardly ideal (I remapped arrows to caps lock + ijkl and to me it's way better)