Having toyed with Vim in the past I was never convinced enough to switch. I guess I've never truly seen it 'in action'. I'll have to watch these videos. Thanks for the link.
I think this is a good route to go. My coworker started this way and asked questions to me and our other Vim user.
After a couple of months, he got used to enough Vim functionality to make the jump. He was also motivated by the vim-features lacking in Sublime Vintage mode, but I can't recall which ones specifically were missing