There was no reason to use Emacs if that's the way you used it. IMO the reason to use Emacs is because you want to customize things. It's a programming language

There was no reason to use Emacs if that's the way you used it. IMO the reason to use Emacs is because you want to customize things. It's a programming language that you interact with in the form of a text editor. That's a pretty small number of people for sure, but for those that want that, Emacs cannot be replaced by a random IDE.