I wonder how it would be if one attempted to make Vim’s verb-object system more visual instead? Imagine if say “dwww” would highlight the next three words in red to mark them for deletion - but until you press enter to execute the deletion, you remain in a visual-like mode where you can adjust the region you want to delete by pressing more motion keys. Similarly, pressing “yip}” could highlight two paragraph (in paragraph + next paragraph) in yellow and then yank them when you press enter.
This would kinda be the opposite of the idea in Helix/Kakoune: one automatically enters a visual-mode-like state after typing a verb that expects an object.
Interesting idea to try out and compare. Indeed the visual feedback provides the biggest value, though to me verbs "fork" from the objects, so it's more "natural" to have some selection then decide what exactly you want to do with it, delete, or replace, or ...
This would kinda be the opposite of the idea in Helix/Kakoune: one automatically enters a visual-mode-like state after typing a verb that expects an object.