You can have the best of both worlds using spacemacs in evil mode. Essentially gives you emacs with a lot of community-selected plugins, but with vim keybinding

You can have the best of both worlds using spacemacs in evil mode. Essentially gives you emacs with a lot of community-selected plugins, but with vim keybindings. As a vim user, there's just certain tools emacs provides to which there's no vim equivalent (or the vim implementation is lacking). Like org mode for example: I've yet to come across something outside of the emacs ecosystem that does a good job of replicating org mode. Maybe jupyter notebooks come close in some ways, but AFAIK the org mode experience is fairly unique to emacs.