Since I started this thread a few months ago, I'll just say that now it seems to me that the main advantage of knowing statistics like this is more to avoid arguments than to win them. When people ask me, "What's that weird editor you like so much?", I would like to just be able to say, "It's the standard Unix editor that people have been using for over 30 years, and which hundreds of thousands of programmers (or whatever) are still using" rather than to give some complex explanation of why I love switching modes, etc. In this sense, this knowledge is actually an avoidance of the "religious wars" rather than a weapon in fighting them. And a good thing too, since I live in a part of the world where there are some literal religious wars going on or brewing, and I don't need this one as well.
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