I did use those briefly myself, but was never all about the CLI. I was quite into GUI tools early on. So on Linux in the early days I used gedit and kate I remember.

If I used CLI based editor it would be vim, but I never got good with vim. I switched to Kakoune. It is sort of like a friendly version of vim. It retains many strenghts of vim but focuses more on usability. It has more discoverable commands and help boxes. I did a writeup of it here in case you are interested: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/kakoune-the-text-editor-i-didnt-know-i-needed-23d5f1d6ad97

It is kind of for people who want a decently powerful editor but don't want things too complicated and isn't willing to invest a ton of time to learn how to use a new editor.