I don't think this is such a big deal. Yeah, you'd spent a couple of days cursing at your fingers. The bindings are an improvement and they require an investment, like all things worthwhile in life.
I've been using helix a while, and compared to vim, the bindings are not as time-efficient as vim bindings are, but I just can never get LSP to work quite right at neovim, so I use helix for code