>they might be great if you're doing scripting, messing around with the back end, or dong DB stuff. But for me, writing day-to-day JS, HTML, CSS code, VIM seems like a very huge burden.

Why is back-end different from front-end? It's all text on a screen. Your statement amounts to, "It might be good for writing and viewing text on a screen but for me, someone writing and viewing text on a screen, it seems like a burden."