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@samebchase I disagree with you there. I just tried it out. Installed emacs and ran it from a project directory. It showed me some things about itself. Where are my files? Most editors would show you a tree of files by default on start.

I happened to know that I can invoke commands in Emacs with Alt-X, so I presssed that. Searched for "Open file" command ... found nothing. After some typing around, I found the find-file command and used that to open a file. And it opened with almost no editing support. No syntax highlighting, no auto completion. At this point most editors would recommend installing appropriate plugins, and start them with sane defaults to provide good editing support automatically. Emacs does nothing.

Then I went and searched online, and found these configs hundreds of lines long, written in a language I have no idea about. That's when I closed the Emacs window.

Emacs needs better defaults, and more user friendly bundling.