Lapce is definitely going on my to-experiment-with list.

Zed’s web page seems to come down pretty heavily on the pro-LLM side of things. Do you know if that can be toggled off or not?

Helix looks interesting, but it won’t work for me for some of the same reasons that Vim doesn’t. Again, my calcified brain’s problems and not a problem with those interfaces.

My limited understanding is that Helix’s dev(s?) actually did work on Vim’s codebase and want to put what they learned there to good use.

usually, yes. It can be used almost amodally, especially if you use the GUI interface, but there are some pretty important features that just can’t be used without switching modes

I’ve been using Librewolf for quite some time now and am genuinely very happy with it. All the big distros package it, so it’s not hard to install. You can scale up/down how private you want your experience and then see how that breaks sites if that’s a concern for you.