I agree, except it doesn't do it on purpose. It's too old to change. Emacs' ugly, clunky, non-standard 1970s way of doing everything is so closely bound to all

I agree, except it doesn't do it on purpose. It's too old to change. Emacs' ugly, clunky, non-standard 1970s way of doing everything is so closely bound to all the good things about Emacs that you can't have one without the other. People always try (for good reason), but then Emacs doesn't work as well, and the efforts evaporate.