I've been down this road and negative gains are likely. I like tinkering with these things and find it fun, so that's fine with me. But efficiency/productivit

I've been down this road and negative gains are likely. I like tinkering with these things and find it fun, so that's fine with me. But efficiency/productivity we're secondary to exploration. Unless you have it your heart to become an absolute elisp guru, emacs won't really offer you anything more than vim or any other editor, except plugins that are harder to integrate and configure.