With time, you start using the menu very rarely, because keyboard shortcuts are so much faster. No menu bar means more screen space when working on a laptop.
I usually switch off the menu bar in Emacs, and I don't even know if it can be turned on in Vim.
Ahh I’d disagree with that, I’ve been solely IntelliJ since around 2011/2012[1] and all the alt+N tool windows, the ctrl+shift+a (besides being the original feature, it’s faster than shift+shift and I never have confusion about whether I’m looking for an action or a file or … that shift+shift view just never made sense to me). Basically all the core shortcuts are memory muscle at this point but the menu is useful for browsing lesser used features. Ctrl+shift+a is slow enough at redrawing that you don’t want to be using it to search / try to remember the name of a feature.
[1] well except for a brief 2 year VSCode spell but i came back a year or so ago and have restored my all products subscription
I usually switch off the menu bar in Emacs, and I don't even know if it can be turned on in Vim.