I'd also say it's a good choice for beginners. Providing one way to configure things and explaining that reasonably well in tutorials and docs is fine. The only

I'd also say it's a good choice for beginners. Providing one way to configure things and explaining that reasonably well in tutorials and docs is fine. The only downside of Doom Emacs for a beginner like me is the non-standard package manager: Just following some packages docs for configuring isn't enough, it's also required to figure out when to execute that config code.