it works great on desktop using mouse too

X11 being reliable because Xorg devs aren’t stupid

Not gonna disagree with the rest of what you said, but the Xorg devs and Wayland devs are mostly the same people

Because you can’t (easily) program gui apps to automate tasks, but combining a few terminal programs to get more complex behaviour is really easy

Desktops are superior even if only for the better cooling options, allowing your chips to sustain higher clockspeeds for longer without the machine sounding like a jet taking off

So from within vim :!pkill vim?

Yes please, I would love not being able to scan comments to see if they are relevant to what I’m trying to do

You could use jq, which will work no matter how the json is formatted.

Without trying it out, something like the following might work:

jq '.path.to.key.to.change |= 11' file.json > file.json.tmp && mv file.json.tmp file.json