I feel exactly the same. Emacs is powerful, but basically everything it can do is also possible with Vim + Bash, and as both can be combined productively I saw

I feel exactly the same. Emacs is powerful, but basically everything it can do is also possible with Vim + Bash, and as both can be combined productively I saw no reason to use Emacs. In the end it doesn't matter if e.g. a document is compiled within Emacs or with a Vim shortcut that calls Pandoc in the background.