I can think of only two types of people who use emacs (same thing for vim) . 1. Old folks who are used to working with them and don't bother switching. 2. You

I can think of only two types of people who use emacs (same thing for vim) . 1. Old folks who are used to working with them and don't bother switching. 2. Young fellas who spend a significant amount of time tinkering and playing with config files. VScode (VScodium really :) offers everything that emacs or vim has to offer (as far as editing file is concerned) with much less time spent in the config files. With that in mind, I still use emacs bacause I belong to that second category.