> This is the kind of needless gatekeeping that will lead to Emacs death. This isn't "gatekeeping". What are you talking about? I expressed my personal opinion

> This is the kind of needless gatekeeping that will lead to Emacs death. This isn't "gatekeeping". What are you talking about? I expressed my personal opinion about one aspect of the default interface. I'm not an Emacs maintainer, RMS' cousin, Zaretskii's dog sitter, or director of FSF, I don't "call the shots". Emacs is completely free to use, distribute and contribute to. Go ahead then, come up with convincing arguments, compose a proposal and write to the emacs-devel mailing list. Maybe, after all you are truly a bright-minded visionary and those dorks that been maintaining Emacs for over 45 years just don't know anything? > it is important to get feedback from real users Nobody is stopping you from giving such feedback. I don't think there were many cases in history where technological breakthroughs happened due to random people arguing about a subject on a forum like HN or Reddit. You have complete freedom to do something about it if you passionately believe in it.