I tend to agree with this line of thinking. I've been almost exclusively a Vim user for the past 15 years and feel like, if anything, it's made me a better programmer because I do spend a lot of time reading docs and code, refining my mental model of APIs, and often, thinking through problems before I start typing since I know that all of the characters in the file will come from strokes of my fingers.

There are certain classes of autocomplete bugs that just can't happen when you're typing every #include/import/require that I find myself continually cleaning up and writing static analysis for.

I spend far more time reading other people's code than writing it. Autocomplete doesn't provide any assistance there.