Spacemacs shows you what Emacs can be, but adds a lot of complexity that most people don't need. I am currently a spacemacs user (holy mode, ya dirty heathens)

Spacemacs shows you what Emacs can be, but adds a lot of complexity that most people don't need. I am currently a spacemacs user (holy mode, ya dirty heathens) and I like a lot of the built in functionality. However, I think that I will eventually build up my own config from vanilla.