I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear: the answer is no, because spreading around the idea that Emacs isn't modern is counter-productive. I guess your question w

I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear: the answer is no, because spreading around the idea that Emacs isn't modern is counter-productive. I guess your question wasn't "yes or no". Then the answer is: we shouldn't. If we ignore the fact that he claims Emacs/Vim are "very hard to learn, ugly, lack many modern features", people will start just assuming that it's all true. And, as I mentioned earlier, this will scare people away from truly great editors needlessly.