Oh $DEITY, he uses arrow keys in Vim! The horror!
So what?
I am Vim-aficionado as well, and I use arrows too. What is wrong with that? I do not use Vim to demonstrate to myself or others how cool I am. I use it because I like the power of combined :ex commands, because I need powerful Regular Expressions. I use it because it works the same way on all systems - Windows, Linux and QNX at work, FreeBSD and Linux at home.
I even remap my arrow keys to gh, gj, gk, gl for some jobs, so when I have some lines with text-wrap enabled I can go to the visual next line (like most of other editors do).
Oh ... and I also use Insert, Home, PageUp, Delete, End and PageDown keys too. Do I lose even more points for that? Thought so ;-)
Aaaand ... You might wish to stop reading now, ...
sometimes I use key combinations such as Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert, and even Alt-F4 on non-windows platforms. I copy lines from mswin.vim to my .vimrc even on non-Windows platforms.