Something tells me that a person who reacts to Vim with a “yuck!” won't like Acme either. Also, I don't know how true this is, but I've read that Acme loses some of its advantages when it's run in e.g. X11 as opposed to its native rio[1] with plumber[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)

[2]: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man4/plumber.html