[timmy-turner]

Agreed. I personally had never any problems with packages overwriting each other. Everybody knows that you have to namespace all the functions and it works, just like it works in C.

And the upside that everything is accessible in the scratch buffer is really worth it.

And for me, Elisp has been a kind of constant during my career. I wouldn't bet that in ten years, I'm still doing Typescript or Javascript. But if I'm still into programming computers via keyboards I will definitively use Emacs for that.