It's in the same spirit certainly, but it's just not complete. For example its interaction with other plugins means you get thrown back into normal mode a lot. Also I just think the name "easy" betrays its real intention as some sort of training wheels for newbies. I'm more interested in making non-modal editing a first class citizen.

Vim's "easy mode" also appears to be cut from Neovim (or not accessible by the -y flag, at least)