Yeah I think this is on point. The core maintainers are always kind of resisting changing things to more sane defaults, which is a pity. I recently had the exp

Yeah I think this is on point. The core maintainers are always kind of resisting changing things to more sane defaults, which is a pity. I recently had the experience of a friend of mine, a data scientist, tell me he tried to use emacs but just couldn’t get it to work. When I asked how he installed it, he was like “well I just downloaded it, and started tinkering a bit with my config”. After which he just ditched it, he accepted that the learning curve was just to steep. The idea that there are these whole starter packs never crossed his mind. I referred him to a few, and he suddenly got much more productive and has been a happy emacs user ever since. Moral of the story: at the very least, users should be made aware of these starter packs much more prominently when downloading or installing emacs. Alternatively, fix the defaults.