alt Hacker News> brutally steep learning curve.... It may take you years to appreciate it, and a lifetime to understand it. But that's OK.
It isn't, that's how apps decline in popularity and eventually die, thus decreasing the value of the huge amount of time you've invested
It is true, but it's also not the case. The steep learning curve is flattened quite a bit by available "starter pack" configs and the amount of fresh articles. So you can get a functional editor and then gradually bend it to your needs. Also, LLMs turned out to be quite good at generating working elisp and helping out in general.