I was an avid user and it's amazing how it's able to port abstractions between its various modes. For example, you can use an auto complete plugin that replace

I was an avid user and it's amazing how it's able to port abstractions between its various modes. For example, you can use an auto complete plugin that replaces text with regexes to rename a batch of files. But nowadays I tend to prefer technologies that work reasonably well with a set of sane defaults. Emacs works really well when you are working on really hard problems and programming fringe things from scratch, but it pales in comparison to the productivity of simple no code tools that's been flourishing recently. That's the experience for the kind of work I've been doing recently, which are mostly CRUD apps to support a business. It might not be true in other domains.