You dismissed your first argument, and I agree, it's just a matter of learning the system - I mean, I don't think anyone here can genuinely argue that VIM is bad because it's hard to learn.

Regarding the autocomplete, GMail does do this. It was a bit jarring initially but now I either accept the option or continue on as if it didn't exist.

I'm not sure what your argument for the third is - that it leads to code that relies on auto-complete? Isn't that in fact an optimization? Those lines don't seem particularly egregious to me. I don't know much C++, but I could see exactly what it was doing with those lines of code by being able to read the variables. Is it verbose? Yes it is. I don't take the idea that coming to rely on a tool is a necessarily a bad thing. C# visual studio debugging is head and shoulders above Console.WriteLine() - is it necessary? No, but it's greatly sped up the development process. Same with not having to go to the command line each time I want to compile and run my application.

I understand you understand you're an outlier, and I know you're just making personal arguments, but it kind of feels a bit "old man yells at cloud" - and that's not bad, I just thought there was value in debate.