I guess I see it as a Spacemacs user or Frontmacs user decided that was the way to make Emacs “their own”, less in an emotional sense and more of a utilitarian

I guess I see it as a Spacemacs user or Frontmacs user decided that was the way to make Emacs “their own”, less in an emotional sense and more of a utilitarian “this will do the job nicely for me”. I got into Linux with Mandrake. A year later I was running Slack. Not everyone sticks with their first tool when starting out