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What makes it inferior, HUH?
What makes is superior is the clean interface (almost like ed), the intuitive (when you become one with the universe) key assignments, the relative low rate of key spamming (you don't have to combine keys too often, which is good), language support, lots of features (but importantly, not too many), a large plugin repository, normal mode (almost as good as ed), man, ed sure is the best editor ever.
Too bad I like syntax highlighting, otherwise I'd use ed all the time.