This is great, thanks. I’ve used Emacs since 1988 but feel like a complete newb as it’s crazy hard to keep up with the development and much of what google will

This is great, thanks. I’ve used Emacs since 1988 but feel like a complete newb as it’s crazy hard to keep up with the development and much of what google will turn up is seems out of data already. I love emacs, but I really wish the out-of-the-box experience was better (eg. IIUC, even the default package repository is known obsolete, so why is it still the default?)