I don't really understand your comment. What are you doing with emacs.d that requires a burdensome level of effort to keep it "up to date"? What does that eve

I don't really understand your comment. What are you doing with emacs.d that requires a burdensome level of effort to keep it "up to date"? What does that even mean? I've been using Emacs almost 10 years, and I very infrequently modify my emacs.d, and I don't know many people who do. Sure, I could spend a lot of time tweaking it and messing around with it, but it'd be an entirely self inflicted thing, and not the fault of Emacs. I could spend all day fiddling with .vimrc, or the Visual Studio settings, too. I also don't understand the what you mean by "the level of effort required for each project" in the context of Emacs. What "project"s are you talking about?