I can say that I went through my period of customization, and haven't spent more than ten straight minutes at a time messing with my config to get something don

I can say that I went through my period of customization, and haven't spent more than ten straight minutes at a time messing with my config to get something done for at least a year. I admit to occasionally setting up something really fun and complex, particularly in my ever-growing pile of machinery around Org, but for real tasks everything just works. When I hit a pain point I might spend a minute making a simple tweak (most recently adding keybindings to deploy a small project) that just uses stuff I've made before. There are definitely people who wind up messing around more than anything else, and people who don't blog about the work they actually do since their blog focuses on Emacs, but it isn't hard to avoid that. A new language isn't quite the one click plugin of VSCode, but with lsp-mode it's actually pretty close. Perhaps 4 lines of config, plus extra keybindings you can grow organically.