And just as terrible to use for every starter as emacs is ;)
I started learning Emacs at the same time I was learning to code. Once I found Doom it was pretty straightforward. Before that...it wasn't fun.
I'm currently trying out lazyvim, and I think the Emacs approach is a lot more accessible to beginners because:
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it does everything on its own instead of relying on you knowing cli tools
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:help is just sad when compared to C-h, and generally the in-editor docs and guides are a lot worse
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Doom is a lot more opinionated than lazyvim, but it also requires a lot less manual setup