Face it, it's better than nano and easier than emacs. You're going to edit some file, somewhere, sometime on some server. You won't be able to click to move your cursor or scroll to the bottom of a 2000 line long configuration file. As it would for any developer, holding down the arrow keys will get old, fast.
This is the reluctant guide to Vim. I'm not going to try to convince you that Vim is God's gift to man. Here's the low-hanging fruit that got me hooked, maybe it will hook you too.
Too often Vim power-users will try to explain some super-powerful thing you can do and how easy it is. Honestly, it is easy for us. The thing is, it's not really all that simple. The truth is that the power of Vim comes from knowing a few basics, and then composing those simple, one character keystrokes into powerful one-liners. Of course, all those things presuppose that you know the fundamentals. Which, as a reluctant Vim user, you probably don't.
These are the fundamentals: