This really doesn't seem that complicated. (1) Either we aim to make Emacs popular or we don't. Personally, I don't think we should bother: I suggest we make

This really doesn't seem that complicated. (1) Either we aim to make Emacs popular or we don't. Personally, I don't think we should bother: I suggest we make it a razor-sharp tool for people prepared to learn some lisp. I also suggest we open up the development experience to allow contributions and code review via PRs. But lots of people want to make it popular. So fine, we do that. Then there's no argument at all for keeping the defaults like a bunch of male lisp programmers over the age of 50 want. Because every single one of them has an emacs init file they've been tending to for decades and they know how to make the relevant changes to override the defaults. So if we are making it popular there should be no time whatsoever given to RMS saying that some keybinding from the early 80s is objectively better.