It's nice to have on boot disks, small enough to fit alongside busybox which ships with a lite vi[1] that some don't care for.

I personally love vi and am a bit taken aback sometimes when visudo pulls up nano instead of vi because I haven't installed it or made it my default editor yet.

So I'm not sure this means much to me personally but I'm always sad to see members of the community part ways. Still, I wish them all the luck and thank them for their efforts.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_the_vi_Editor/BusyBox...