Yes it is relative, I probably should have been more clear about that. I am basing this entirely off of how it feels to use the tool, rather than measured timi

Yes it is relative, I probably should have been more clear about that. I am basing this entirely off of how it feels to use the tool, rather than measured timings, because I am a person who feels and not a clock that measures. I also don't care all that much! Emacs is slow and also still the best tool for many of my uses. If it's unbearably slow for a given task I just use something else for that.