There's a great story in how much of the world runs in excel. I use it simplistically, but I make no pretence there aren't deep, complex use cases. Maybe because I use it simplistically it doesn't bother me how weak it is compared to native.

Right. Imagine an intermediate user of emacs, vim, sublime or vscode. They'd find switching to nano or notepad.exe pretty rough.

Yea, although for the Emacs user because all x11 apps acquire x11 through MIT's X10R4 idea of textbox edit norms, they get the in line text edit/move behaviour they expected on anybody's xorg app. Not such on notepad.exe

Powershell doesn't do it for me, but that aside WSL might.