[astrobe_]

> I will never understand how you go back from a very customized editor setup to the one with "reasonable defaults with little to no things to configure".

That's one of the reasons why I chose Vim over Emacs after switching back and forth for a while.

I do prefer the design of Emacs because I prefer having full control over my environment - I even coded more than a couple of tiny, application-specific editors - but sometimes I have better things to do than e.g. reading docs or searching for a plugin/extension mod that does what I need, or do it myself; sometimes I am a mere luser who want things to "just work" out-of-the-box.