So, I've gotten my #emacs vanilla config far enough that I'm mostly using it and only ocassionally switching to spacemacs to see how it's doing the things I'm porting over. Getting used to vanilla keybindings isn't as bad as I thought, though I still have my C-z 'kitchen sink' keymap for quickly hitting things I use a lot. And I'm getting pretty happy with mostly using mastodon.el for fediverse stuff. I just need to figure out why it has trouble with my notifications.