[hvis]

> It has a ton of long term users that just don't want their defaults changed.

For all we know, there might be just a dozen of them, but with the (low) popularity of the mailing lists, they are certainly making themselves heard.

> I think Emacs will change over the following decades. Not because its users will <<change>>, but because its <<users>> will change. To clarify, it's like that saying about science: science advances, one funeral at a time.

Right. Hopefully it won't alienate the newer generations of users too much by that time.