I don't find the the difference between Emacs and Vim too big, but this is because I rebinded most of Emacs' default keybindings. Vim is faster for most things but not all, having to switch back to normal mode gets in the way sometimes.

However, Vim's '.' command is just so convenient! Emacs does have some packages to imitate it but they never worked quite alright for me.

Now that I am using evil-mode (Vim keybindings) in Emacs I am in a happy place.