[nurbl]

My fresh emacs startup time is a couple of seconds, not super snappy but then it has a reasonably large config to load. Reducing startup time is nice but I think vanilla emacs actually already starts quickly. How would you even be able to prevent people from adding heavy stuff to their config? It's possible to defer loading of packages until you need them but I think it would be hard to enforce by default, given that Emacs is really just a lisp machine and the config file is a lisp program.

I normally never exit Emacs. This is not because of startup time. To me it's like the web browser; I use it all the time, have a workspace dedicated to it and it's natural to keep lots of buffers open. My muscle memory takes care of jumping between open buffers.