And people complain about UI discoverability in vim, but the fact is if you know how to quit out of vim you will sooner or later bump into the command history; if you experience rogue-like joy in the at this moment you know vim was meant for you.
I don't know if it's by default but Vim also saves search / command history across sessions. So if you quit or accidentally kill the terminal and open Vim again, that history will still be there.
