Yes, indeed. All the tools, all the time, always available. Something like writing a macro in Lisp. All the language is there at your disposal and it's nothing

Yes, indeed. All the tools, all the time, always available. Something like writing a macro in Lisp. All the language is there at your disposal and it's nothing compared with C macros where you have huge limitations, it being actually a different language than C. I feel your pain with the VSC example. "Consistency" is a good word. The result, for me at least, is that I can actually think about what I want to do with the tool and not how to use it. It gets out of the way, it does not try to fight me. I think maybe that's one interpretation of the saying "Emacs is an operating system".