Jack Baty has a very amusing, but true, take on using Emacs and how resisting it is like resisting gravity: in the end you’re gonna lose. His story is that he hates futzing around with things, especially his Emacs configuration, so every once in a while he decides to find simpler apps to perform all the chores that he does in Emacs.
It never ends well. He starts out loving the new apps and not having to constantly tweak their configuration but he inevitably finds himself missing some of the custom tweaks that he made to Emacs. Then one day, he needs to work on an Org file, opens it in Emacs, and suddenly he’s right back where he started. He rediscovers all those customizations he made to Emacs that made his life so much easier.
It’s like the Borg: resistance is futile … , or perhaps like crack: once you start, you can’t stop. Of course, unlike the Borg and crack, Emacs is not evil—users of those other editors notwithstanding—but a real boon to our workflow. Still, there’s no denying that its use is addictive. Once you start you soon find yourself wondering how you can import this or that task into Emacs. Before long, having to leave Emacs is an imposition. Finally, like me, you find yourself installing emacs-everywhere so that even when you’re not in Emacs, you can be in Emacs.
So rather than the Borg or crack, Emacs is actually the editor for all seasons.