I suppose that
$ cat > file.txt
is a bit like cowboy/Turkish coffee, just throwing the grounds in the water and waiting for them to settle.
My coffee is ed style. My editing is more vi (less vim, but some ed).
Arch is nice in concept, but I use Ubuntu these days with the same window manager and X11 tools I've been using for twenty years. A casual observer wouldn't notice the difference between my Slackware and my Ubuntu installs.