I have started to learn Vim about a year ago and still learning new tricks each day

Wait until you say this after 10 years.

After 10 years he might even be as fast as with a non-modal editor.

Did you misspell "editor with language intelligence?"

Because yeah, vim won't beat IntelliJ, but you can get it to be pretty decent with LSP:

https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp