Emacs does do a lot more "out of the box" now than many people realize. You will still have to turn them on, I think; but you don't have to install as many ext

Emacs does do a lot more "out of the box" now than many people realize. You will still have to turn them on, I think; but you don't have to install as many external packages as you are implying there. And the problem with "sane defaults" is that to those of us that have been on Emacs for a long time, the defaults are sane. If you were to switch them on us, that would be frustrating. You /could/ make it so that startup on a vanilla setup has a set of checkboxes for common input schemes that people select between. I'm not sure why that hasn't been done, or what other issues that would have. As for saving time/money by "doing their job" rather than configuring an editor. This is always a tough one. I don't think people should have to spend time getting to know their editors. But, I also don't worry that people don't spend time learning to care for their cars or their plumbing. That is, it makes sense that many people want to outsource that effort to others. It also makes sense that many people like getting into that sort of stuff. And I don't know why it has to be a battle between them?