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Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by erikpukinskis on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:01PM (#13592205)
No in the realm of plugins, which was the subject of the article, it's exactly how OP says: they know the Emacs plugin landscape and not the Vim one. For the relevant passage search "I'm not that person".
Re:A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming by jcoffland on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:31PM (#13595458)
From the first paragraph of the article:

"The reality is that I already spend most of my editing time in vim"