I bought windows pro at some point, but could not for the life of me activate my windows after an install. Didn’t get a serial code, and the system wouldn’t pick up my account. Good riddance.

I don’t even think that’s the case, honestly. There are ways to make it animated smooth as well, and the scrolling is already more responsive and fast, and thus smooth.

Using vim keybinds in gui ide’s feels bad to me usually cause of how slow they tend to be.

I almost exclusively do front end, in exclusively nvim. Exactly like you say, just have a browser window (or 2) permanently open.