Some of the first advice I was given when starting to learn emacs, was learn vanilla first then try doom or spacemacs. Hearing the love so many have for spacem

Some of the first advice I was given when starting to learn emacs, was learn vanilla first then try doom or spacemacs. Hearing the love so many have for spacemacs, I started there first instead. Quite early on, I ran into problems. Every time I reached out on various forums I was told either: you're doing it wrong, that's a non-issue, RTFM (which isn't helpful when you don't know what you're looking for), or my favorite you have an XY problem (I didn't). So I'd go back to vim and put emacs on the back burner for a while longer, waiting for spacemacs to mature. After the third attempt at spacemacs, I gave up and started looking for a good emacs tutorial. Again I ran into some issues, but I found the regular emacs people very welcoming and helpful. Pretty soon I was able to diagnose my own issues, and figure out what settings I needed to change to meet my needs. In the end, that early advice was true. You need to have some understanding for emacs to help diagnose spacemacs issues. Will I give spacemacs another shot? Maybe one day, probably around the time the update their main release. It's been what, 2.5 years since they updated the main branch?