Is there a Vim equivalent of Emacs's C-h k followed by the key combo, which basically says, "Tell me what the official command name is for this keystroke?"
I don't know of anything quite like that but the help can be searched by key, though only for the default key combinations, e.g. ":h i^a" would show the docs for the ctrl-a command in insert mode.
Note though that vim really doesn't have commands the same way as emacs does. That's why you generally see assigning one key combination to another instead of some "command name."
You can bind a key to a command too. However, mapping to keys allows you to create your own. To give you a crude example, you could map a key to go down 5 times (5j). A real example would be more complicated for some specific task -- jump to other window, maxmimize it, go down to 5th line or some bookmark, etc.
"C-w =" equalizes the size of splits. That works fine if you already had them near-equal, but I frequently shrink or maximize split windows, and I don't want them equalizing every time the window resizes.
Having paired with many people who have loaded Emacs keybindings into Vim, this made me laugh.
But serious talk:
Unless someone has loaded Emacs keybindings, shouldn't <C-a> be used to increment a number (even a hexadecimal one)? How is that heresy? Not having <C-a> makes several macros difficult.