If that's your whole use case, yeah, sure. I routinely need to do things like backup and restore, or adjust DB settings, or easily copy data out of SQL and into

If that's your whole use case, yeah, sure. I routinely need to do things like backup and restore, or adjust DB settings, or easily copy data out of SQL and into Excel for tasks, and SSMS is just really, really good at all those things. As for the "everything emacs" thing, I'll say this: there is near total overlap between the set of people who do this and the set of people for whom tinkering with emacs is a rewarding hobby. If you just want to get work done, it's rarely the most effective path. emacs for me is a means to an end: OrgMode. Absent org, I'd never have started using it. Once something else comes along that works as well as org and has a better mobile story, I might move on (Obsidian is interesting...). I am, generally speaking, not a fan of monolithic solutions because it leads to sunk-cost-fallacy thinking and difficulty in migrating to new tools that might serve a purpose better.