Derek Taylor has an interesting take on learning Doom Emacs. Most immigrants to Doom are coming from Vim or are Emacs users who need the more ergonomic evil keybindings because of RSI problems. But, says Taylor, some people coming to Doom are total n00bs arriving from outside of either Vim or Emacs. He’s done several videos on switching to Doom but some of his viewers told him he was neglecting users coming to Doom tabula rasa.
He’s posted a video to remedy this. It’s intended to be an introduction to Doom Emacs for the n00b. He doesn’t assume the viewer has any particular background. He shows how to get Doom installed and do some elementary configuration. I think his video is perfect for beginners because he’s not an Emacs power user and is well positioned to understand the neophytes’ concerns and problems.
If you’re new to the Emacs/Vim world and would like to try out Doom, take a look at Taylor’s video; It gives you enough to get started. I still like the idea of starting with vanilla Emacs and building a configuration that’s customized explicitly to suit you but I recognize that some folks are in a hurry an would rather have a reasonably usable configuration out of the box. And, of course, Doom allows you to control which packages and features get loaded so it can still be tweaked to suit the individual user.