As for the more higher level stuff, spacemacs does a great job of that. It really makes configuration files, separation of concerns, vim bindings, and many othe

As for the more higher level stuff, spacemacs does a great job of that. It really makes configuration files, separation of concerns, vim bindings, and many other things sensible and user friendly. It doesn't touch the lower level code though, as it is just an elisp layer on top of emacs itself.