I'm not sure anyone is actually fighting. We both like what we're used to, and neither of us is claiming it's better. We're both just agreeing we don't want to change.

People are allowed to like different things (except vi, obviously -- I hope we can all agree to that).

As a footnote: I'm comfortable with mainstream keyboard shortcuts too, but not in emacs. Those things do specific things in emacs, and would be a mess. If you remap ctrl-k, I won't have a way to cut a line anymore! I need that.