I agree with you. Having tasted the emacs way, I'm constantly frustrated (actually I just simply avoid) by interactions with software that isn't so inspectable,

I agree with you. Having tasted the emacs way, I'm constantly frustrated (actually I just simply avoid) by interactions with software that isn't so inspectable, and malleable. Still, never blocking user input is a respectable goal for an editor, and a design philosophy I wish emacs would seriously pursue. I would not mind a "feature" freeze on emacs for the remainder of the decade if it meant absolute responsive editing with asynchronous operations.