I used acme as my main text editor for a few years and a lot of what you say resonates with me. The biggest problem I had with amce wasn't the editor itself but

I used acme as my main text editor for a few years and a lot of what you say resonates with me. The biggest problem I had with amce wasn't the editor itself but the lack of easy to use integrations. Acme integrates well with external programs. This is really nice, but I don't want to spend the time writing all of my own integrations. Maybe I can justify that effort if I work in one codebase for a long time, but I've bounced around and haven't thought the investment would be worthwhile. Compare with vscode: actively developed and you just click some buttons to get all the integrations. Just so much less friction. If acme had an active community around it the situation may be different. But that's just not the case.