Yes - Portacle is an amazing piece of software and also the way to go for someone who just wants to check Lisp out on Mac/Win/Linux, but it also has its issues,

Yes - Portacle is an amazing piece of software and also the way to go for someone who just wants to check Lisp out on Mac/Win/Linux, but it also has its issues, e.g. with some systems that depend on foreign libraries. Also, if someone already has emacs set up and preconfigured, there's no point in adding another emacs instance with a distinct configuration for long-term programming.