My biggest problem with Emacs is that most modes map keys to be compatible with its default layout, so you really can't get away from the default Keybindings.

My biggest problem with Emacs is that most modes map keys to be compatible with its default layout, so you really can't get away from the default Keybindings. Evil-mode is nice in this regard, but I don't want Vim's defaults either, not to mention Emacs' bindings are still there, just hiding in insert mode. The feature I want the most (that isn't readily available in an editor) is to define keybindings from scratch. I don't want to deal with undoing everyone else's work just to get started on my own.