Emacs is like programming. Spend a good ten years on it and you somehow can't fathom how you could solve (your textual) problems in any other way. Anything less

Emacs is like programming. Spend a good ten years on it and you somehow can't fathom how you could solve (your textual) problems in any other way. Anything less and you just keep comparing it to other text editors which makes as much sense as comparing practicing programming to practicing medicine or law (or some other high-profile occupation) as all of them require lots of reading and having lots of knowledge.