What makes Emacs unique to me doesn't have anything to do editing code. All the tools for doing that are incredibly similar, specially after LSP became a thing.

What makes Emacs unique to me doesn't have anything to do editing code. All the tools for doing that are incredibly similar, specially after LSP became a thing. Writing code in Emacs or VSC is practically the same for me, though I happen to prefer the former. It's mainly about how powerful plaintext is and how Emacs and it's community acknowledged that. Org and org-roam are extensions of my brain by now, I've even installed Emacs in my smartphone because of that. Ledger-mode is the most ideal finance management I could conceive, and I've set-up Emacs (CUA-mode with just a ledger hydra) for two family members so they could use it too. I have absolutely no idea how I could make Ledger tolerable to non-technical people without Emacs. I also create beautiful presentations in a couple of minutes using org-reveal. Besides, it's hack-ability certainly inspires inumerable beautiful creations. Some packages like Magit, Hydra, Helm and avy are just that, beautiful. When I don't feel like programming, I change some config and write programs as an excuse to test it, because Emacs is fun. It's no wonder people who act like understanding your editor is a chore have a bad experience, they're missing the point.