Bozhidar Batsov made an interesting observation that several people have mentioned or commented on. The TL;DR is that Batsov thinks that Emacs can be considered a lifestyle. If you’re an Emacser your reaction is probably like mine: it’s not literally true but it does capture a certain truth concerning how we feel about Emacs.
For me, the essence of that feeling is captured by Stephen Ramsey’s reply to the tweet that started the whole thing off.
Configuring Emacs is more of a lifestyle choice than a task that one completes.
— Stephen A. Ramsey (@stephenaramsey) November 23, 2021
I usually express this by comparing my Emacs configuration to a Japanese garden: It’s a work that’s always in progress but never finished. The gardener spends his life improving the garden little by little and striving for a perfection that is never reached. So it is with our Emacs configurations: A neverending search for an ideal never achieved.