That is my experience as well. I had a messy, ball of mud .emacs file for a couple of decades. When I found Doom, I dropped my .emacs and it became just a few

That is my experience as well. I had a messy, ball of mud .emacs file for a couple of decades. When I found Doom, I dropped my .emacs and it became just a few dozen lines of org/templates config. The rest is all doom. I even adopted Vi (A lifelong Vi avoider..) and am getting proficient with it. Sometimes you want to get your hands dirty and configure everything. Sometimes you adopt something that is created and supported by experts and just enjoy it. Both are fine I guess.