Try letting go. If passion and commitment are based on true love, they will not restrain personal freedom to explore. If you really have made the best choice, regular dalliance with other editors will strengthen your relationship, rather than threaten it. Some, like vim , are enhancements of one of the basic text editors. There are small trifiling editors, small powerful editors, large powerful editors, those with a snazzy look and feel and those whose real power is only revealed to the truly devoted.
Past experience has a bearing on an individual's preferences.
Now I use the FreeBSD port without any more learning. Joe does most things anyone could want, but many people find it unpleasant to use, it just doesn't feel right. Once I used to believe that an editor should impress me out of the box, but now I demand to be able to reconfigure them to my liking. Your position might be somewhere between these extremes. As we saw in the case of ee , an editor that is easy to use without any training is not necessarily the editor that will do everything you want now or in the future.