I rolled my own emacs config when I started out, for the first 3 years or so. When I saw spacemacs I liked the entire kitchen sink approach, it opened my brain

I rolled my own emacs config when I started out, for the first 3 years or so. When I saw spacemacs I liked the entire kitchen sink approach, it opened my brain up to a lot of the functionality of emacs/packages that I wasn't touching. When I saw Doom Emacs though I was kind of skeptical at first (this was about 5 years ago), it seemed to have a lot less batteries included, but I gave it chance anyway, longing after the understanding I got when I wrote my own config. I've been entirely happy daily driving it since. Doom Emacs just seems to have a different philosophy than Spacemacs, it's more like a really well designed configuration framework for emacs on which there are nice layers on top instead of the more monolithic Spacemacs approach. I can easily configure it to my needs, write my own custom modules, and hack on it. It really does a sane job updating and managing the packages, something I would waste too much time on with Spacemacs. So to me is that it seems lower level and better software, yet I still get the preconfigured functionality that allows me to quickly go take an emacs install from zero to hero in a matter of minutes. And did I mention? It's fast.