Comment by tmtvl

I used Vim for 5-ish years and I kinda got into that mindset, but on occasion I would fail to switch to insert mode (I think by not hitting the i or a key properly, but when in the flow I don't really pay attention to what my hands are doing) and stuff would go haywire. After 5 years of that happening intermittently I got really fed up with it and I started trying various alternatives.

I have been using Emacs for about 6 years now and when I fail to engage a modifier key properly all that happens is that I type some text in the active buffer. If I really manage to do a silly mistype, I can just hit C-h l to show my recent keystrokes to find out what I did.