You can consider doom emacs a 'mod' that make it easier to manage your customized emacs config. If anything I found doom to make it easier to stay close to the

You can consider doom emacs a 'mod' that make it easier to manage your customized emacs config. If anything I found doom to make it easier to stay close to the 'intended' way to customize emacs, since it heavily encourages you to use 'use-package' and 'general.el' to manage your extensions, and gives you good startup performance if you use them as intended (allowing the lazy-loading to do its work). Although it's possible I was simply more familiar with the 'right' way to do it when I moved to Doom from Spacemacs. Either way I got the impression it felt quite close to the way to manipulate 'native' emacs (but with a lot of sensible defaults that I couldn't be bothered to figure out myself).