No time like the present. Give it a try. Even if you just use it for editing /etc files it’s much more efficient than nano.
Don’t be intimidated by the huge feature set. I’ve been using it practically daily for 25 years and I still only use a small fraction of the available commands.
I have. Not my cup of tea. Small file I edit in nano / whatever else. Anything serious is remote editing using some IDE. The terminal I use also has SSH file browser where you can click on file and edit it locally using any editor. It will be saved back to where it came from.
Don’t be intimidated by the huge feature set. I’ve been using it practically daily for 25 years and I still only use a small fraction of the available commands.