My thoughts exactly. Coming from Vim I really wanted to like the idea of some fully async editor with Vim ease of navigation and Emacs power packages (org mode

My thoughts exactly. Coming from Vim I really wanted to like the idea of some fully async editor with Vim ease of navigation and Emacs power packages (org mode, async repl like iPython, etc) so I found the idea of Spacemacs awesome. But in practice it's just too broken, after almost 2 days where I fully dedicated my time to do something as simple as showing line numbers in a consistent way, showing the Git gutter and showing the syntax checker marks in the gutter and being unable to solve the issue, I just gave up. Mind you, this is just a small thing that should work right away (and does work right away in Vim), but seems impossible in Emacs because the packages just don't play nicely with each other. Worst, asking for help in Stackoverflow amounts to nothing, seems like the Emacs/Spacemacs just has their config and they don't want to touch it afraid to break it. The open bugs in Github for many of the troubles in Space are just mostly closed without an answer (really, for instance getting the theme colors to actually work in a terminal in OSX is a nightmare and nobody cares about it and the devs just close the bugs without solution). Still, I'm still thinking about giving one last effort of just ditching Spacemacs and try to config Emacs from origin with evil mode and build from there, let's see. BRIGHT SIDE: The philosophy being Spacemacs is really nice tough. I've been changing my Vim config to use a consistent approach to the <LEADER> keybindings and it's really productive and intuitive. I just which there was some package that allowed to see the available keybindings in a small window at the bottom in Vim like you do in Spacemacs. That would be absolutely great.