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The blub paradox would indicate that you wouldn't recognize it.

Richard P. Gabriel's famous "Lisp: The Good News, The Bad News, And How To Win Big" (aka "Worse is Better") discusses this very thing. I'd reccomend reading it.

But frankly, it's hard to say that an environment is objectively better. What one person may view as a step up, another may view as a step down, and we all have a kneejerk reaction to unfamiliar environments. The lispm is a really nice environment, to be sure, but I'll likely never know if it's better. Emacs will have to be good enough (which it certainly is).