Historically, they would just plop the file right on their .emacs.d With Emacs I'm more likely to try and extend some part of the editor than I am with Vim. A

Historically, they would just plop the file right on their .emacs.d With Emacs I'm more likely to try and extend some part of the editor than I am with Vim. A significant percentage of Vim users make heavy use of plugins; and I feel that "don't do it myself" lends to fewer plugins of higher quality.