I don't use Nyxt, but I use a similar browser called qutebrowser. It is keyboard-first, and there are even a few things for which mouse bindings haven't been added yet.
I had a similar experience as you describe, where I first heard about it a couple of times, but backed off from the learning curve.
Eventually, I was fed up with the second-class-citizen state of keyboard bindings in Firefox and Chrome via Vimium/VimFX. I think the XUL "deprecation" effort was the final straw for me. I remembered browsing with Opera years ago, around version 4.x or 5.x, when keyboard bindings were first-class in Opera. I decided to lean in and do it.
It took me about three days of retraining myself and looking into the cheatsheet on a regular basis before I became productive, and a bit longer to really feel an improvement over the previous ways. But now I would never go back, and I loathe having to open Chrome for slow heavy sites (it's still faster.)
I really feel like I'm in a whole new world of browsing, where the browser really works for me and helps me access the information as quickly as imaginably possible.
It's one of the most "futuristic" things I've experienced, just pressing the keys on the keyboard, a bunch of "gibberish" appearing in my screenkey feedback, and the browser dancing around the pages, doing exactly what I want (except when I accidentally start typing out of insert mode.)
I had a similar experience as you describe, where I first heard about it a couple of times, but backed off from the learning curve.
Eventually, I was fed up with the second-class-citizen state of keyboard bindings in Firefox and Chrome via Vimium/VimFX. I think the XUL "deprecation" effort was the final straw for me. I remembered browsing with Opera years ago, around version 4.x or 5.x, when keyboard bindings were first-class in Opera. I decided to lean in and do it.
It took me about three days of retraining myself and looking into the cheatsheet on a regular basis before I became productive, and a bit longer to really feel an improvement over the previous ways. But now I would never go back, and I loathe having to open Chrome for slow heavy sites (it's still faster.)
I really feel like I'm in a whole new world of browsing, where the browser really works for me and helps me access the information as quickly as imaginably possible.
It's one of the most "futuristic" things I've experienced, just pressing the keys on the keyboard, a bunch of "gibberish" appearing in my screenkey feedback, and the browser dancing around the pages, doing exactly what I want (except when I accidentally start typing out of insert mode.)