Yes, I mean, I use all a lot of those things (haven't caught the org-mode bug tho, it's too incompatible with my attention-deficit...) but to be frank a lot of

Yes, I mean, I use all a lot of those things (haven't caught the org-mode bug tho, it's too incompatible with my attention-deficit...) but to be frank a lot of the stuff I jam into emacs (vertico, treemacs, projectile, all-the-icons etc) is in fact to get around UX issues with stock emacs. I'd hope that a fresh emacs from scratch would just ship with something close to what those provide. In the end my biggest beef with emacs these days is just the terrible lack of multithreading, bringing long pause and startup times. Most of my problems in the past have been rectified. Emacs 29 is really quite delightful and much easier to manage than ever before.