Yes, it's certainly more ergonomic and comfortable. Still, I find the mouse pretty fast overall. But I'm pretty good at aiming at things with it after playing FPS games for a while.
>how easy vim handles the _not_ simple things
Agreed, despite any minor differences in movement speed, even '.' by itself is useful enough to never switch back.
Correction - you must move your mouse hand from the keyboard, move the mouse to the desired location, _then_ click.
Ergonomic concern often goes side-by-side with editors like vim.
I'm also not convinced that comparing the simple editor things is demonstrating the value of vim much. It's how easy vim handles the _not_ simple things, and also how easy it is to motion the often unique or rarely used edits, combined with drop-of-the hat programmability, that makes vim a good choice.