You don’t have to move your hands while touch typing. This is the single biggest reason why vim is still used today, regardless of whether you have arrow keys or not. In fact vim does support arrow keys and using the mouse as well! It’s just much easier to edit files without needing to move your hands and/or use a touchpad/mouse.

And what would those penalties be? If you are not based in the country having these moronic laws, they can’t do shit (see: fines for 4chan in the UK, fines for Google in Russia), except maybe ‘banning’ your distro, which amounts to nothing, since whoever is determined enough can just find it online anyways.