Not just, but he literally advertised himself as not being technical. That seems to be just asking for an open season.

Or it turns out you accidentally left caps lock on, and now you’re locked out for a few minutes.

Unclear. They don’t give their reasoning beyond “complicated = bad”, and very specifically leave it up to the imagination of the reader.

While they make some interesting points with regards to overcomplication and scope creep, there are also good reasons why we’re still not using programs like ed as text editors, such as it being arcane and unintuitive.

vi will at least helpfully point out :exit is not an editor command. Instead, ed will not-so-helpfully point out ?.

When you think of a bloated text editor, you would not expect VI to be that. If anything, it’s closer to the opposite.