Well, Emacs is all about choice and flexibility -- not 1-click convenience. If you do not want to spend some time learning your tool, it's definitely not for yo

Well, Emacs is all about choice and flexibility -- not 1-click convenience. If you do not want to spend some time learning your tool, it's definitely not for you. I respect that. See, if you hate "lsp-mode" and "lsp-ui" you can go for the more minimal "eglot.el". Similarly, you can exchange "company.el" with "corfu.el" if you prefer the latter. It's all about freedom of choice. Emacs means to many people different things. The code I pasted, however, are standard "use-package" expressions that work the same for every Emacs extension. And all of the configuration options you've got for an extension are usually well documented on the corresponding project page (at least for matured ones). And if you look closely, I haven't actually made a lot of modifications -- so the lines actually boil down to just installing five extensions. While language ecosystems evolve so is Emacs and correspondingly my Emacs configuration. Sometimes you'll need to look into new alternatives. Especially in web development I'll probably need to switch over to "javascript-ts-mode" for JS and "typescript-ts-mode" for TS soon. For my configuration this will mean I'll remove the lines corresponding to "web-mode" and modify my language server client like this: (use-package lsp-mode :commands (lsp lsp-deferred) :hook (lsp-mode . gernoti/lsp-mode-setup) - (js-mode . lsp-deferred) - (typescript-mode . lsp-deferred) - ;; We only turn lsp-mode on if web-mode runs in JSX or TSX mode. - (web-mode . gernoti/lsp-deferred-maybe-jsx) + (js-ts-mode . lsp-deferred) + (typescript-ts-mode . lsp-deferred) :init (setq lsp-keymap-prefix "C-c l") ;; Or 'C-l', 's-l' :config ;; You want this if you want to discover all lsp mode's goodies. ;; Though I found I actually don't use many features, really. (lsp-enable-which-key-integration t)) That's about it. So it's not like I have to trash all of my configuration every other week. But it certainly looks a bit obscure to someone who is not familiar with ELISP. For me learning that to some extent has certainly has paid off as I did not have to relearn a new editor every couple of years.