I really recommend rebinding caps lock to escape. macOS lets you do that natively in keyboard setting nowadays. Still muscle memory to relearn, of course.

I’ve only been using vim for about 10 years but I’m pretty sure I’ve hit escape less than a few thousand times in those years. One of the first things I did was imap jk <Esc> and it turns out that’s really all I need Escape for (Ctrl-C is goto to return to normal mode)...

You shouldn't be happy that they added that back, you should be pissed that they took it out in the first place, well knowing how many developers use Mac.

I think it's more like Excel users have been loud enough. Esc is very important for Excel.