I often call vim the "photoshop of text". command mode has a rigidity like an image , but you can cut copy and paste parts of it.
AI text generations will be more like games than like photoshop. Photoshop is 2 step: do and undo, but editing text is more like a continuous stream of refinements.
Yes, I think macros and regex-based Vim features are more fitting for the comparison to Photoshop than AI-powered features which are a new addition to image/video editing as well. Piping a selection through a shell command or regex based replace is like applying a filter to a selected set of pixels.
AI text generations will be more like games than like photoshop. Photoshop is 2 step: do and undo, but editing text is more like a continuous stream of refinements.