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Bizarre that you've hated it for 30 years yet didn't know one of the earliest things users learn about it (that actually is fine to use). Perhaps you should examine why you hate something you're almost completely ignorant of.
Though most jokes and criticisms about Emacs betray complete ignorance of it, so you're hardly unusual.
I don't need all the overhead. Vi has always worked for me. It's ubiquitous. I'm fast with it. It suits my needs fully.
You must truly loathe vscode etc then if you hate emacs for overhead. I can't really see why you should hate something just because it uses a slightly less small amount of resources. I don't even know how you'd notice on any machine from the last 20 years.
This is my preference. Is that not OK?
Seems pretty reasonable that if you want to tell the world you hate something, you might want the world to understand why you hate it, or else perhaps we might assume it's not a reasoned position. That's certainly the conclusion I'm coming to.