[mcbuilder]

I am not sure. Sure with deamon mode and lazy loading emacs can be really fast to start up and open files nowadays, but the old joke was EMACS stood for "eights megs and constantly swapping". Evil mode is just the more recent iteration of vim keybindings in EMACS that go all the way back to modes like viper mode.

[colordrops]

Most vi users actually use vim or neovim with complicated configs and dozens of plugins - setting up daemon mode and lazy loading would not be a problem. Emacs would be my daily driver if it had native vi keybindings. And i could go back to vi/vim if I logged into a server and had to edit a file.