When I write guides I do them with nano but I worry about pointing new users to it because it’s an educational dead end. Unlike other editors it doesn’t teach you things that work with other tools, it only teaches you nano.
What could work is if mainstream distros shipped VIM configured with basic Sublime/Atom/Notepad++ style keybinds in addition to VIM keybinds.
It’s surprisingly easy to configure VIM to use Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Q and “normal” text selection which’d put it miles above nano for a new user. When using these commands it could put a prompt at the bottom for how to use them the VIM way which they can just ignore if/when they’re not up for exploring. It could be called the “VIM learning config”.
I also made a helpful guide for getting out of VIM 