Yay, the original Holy War!

(vi, for the record)

I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.

That's probably not true, in that among the myriad distros there's probably one in which vi is nvi.

vi is still included in the arch linux base system

true, but that's why we have evil mode[1], so we can have our elisp cake and eat our delicous sugary vim bindings too.

[1] https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home