ctrl+Q did the job!

see the cord plugged into the wall?

alias vim='wordpad.exe'

Better yet, swap the binaries

I’ll break the keyboard if someone would do that to me

As per the manual, "Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors" - which is best suited with GUI Vim.

While Vim doesn't make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like https://github.com/tombh/novim-mode!

According to vim --help:

-y Easy mode (like "evim", modeless)

That started out as a fictional implementation in the turn-of-the-century webcomic User Friendly (main site died a while back, unfortunately), and then someone decided that it would be fun to implement it for real.

The one in the comic was deliberately created to be evil. Not sure about the real-world implementation.

Say hello to vigor. It might require some tweaking to compile nowadays (or not, who knows).

The kakoune editor cimes with clippy by default. It's not exactly a Vim version though, but close enough.