In the one I saw he spent 5 minutes (of 30) figuring out a mistake caused by a simple typo, that a regular IDE would wiggle for him the second after he typed it in.

Is there a significant number of people who use vim without any sort of syntax highlighting and linting? I'm still a newb programmer but I started trying to learn neovim this weekend, I can't imagine using it plain...

I personally use Vi(m?) mode in a JetBrains IDE and I consider it to be the best of both worlds.

Same. His rap skills are hard to forget. https://youtu.be/9iUvuaChDEg