30 years of cruft + mix/matching of semi-incompatible semi-backwards-compatible systems if you use 3rd-party elisp and/or maintain a config for a long time. I

30 years of cruft + mix/matching of semi-incompatible semi-backwards-compatible systems if you use 3rd-party elisp and/or maintain a config for a long time. I love emacs, use it daily, and think that it's positives far outweigh it's negatives, but hooo boy sometimes you need to wade through decades of muck to make it do a thing, and it's often not clear what the best way to go about trying to do a thing is, particularly to people who haven't been using emacs for a decade+.