As a long time Emacs user, the only way I'd even consider switching off of GNU Emacs would be if there was a port written in Common Lisp that replaced ELisp with Common Lisp. Even then, I'd only switch if it had replacements for the ELisp modules I use (ERC, Slime, C++-mode, etc.).
As an end user, I don't see any advantages in switching to yet another Emacs rewrite in yet another low level language.
Using Common Lisp instead of ELisp would be useful enough that I might switch.
I wrote this Common Lisp script to pull the tip of the official Git repo, and then build and install. I run it every few months if I need to restart Emacs for some reason. Works (for me) on Linux and OSX without out a problem. I've been using it long enough that I had to update it to use Git instead of whatever they used before, and I don't recall ever having a build error once I installed the dependencies the first time.
https://gist.github.com/jl2/a6420f0355c5a453b130109df202805f
Rust has phenomenal cross-platform support so there's no need for scripts or multiple dependencies. It's just a simple "cargo install <foo>" and away you go.
Even if that's not feasible for some reason, setting up the build environment is a one time sunk cost, so who cares?
I build from source at work because I'm still using an ancient version of Ubuntu there, and "apt-get install emacs" installs version 24.something.
At home on a modern Debian system I use "apt-get install emacs" and it works just fine. I did test that build script on OSX, but the one I actually use is from https://emacsformacosx.com/
Could you perhaps elaborate on the problems you are experiencing, since otherwise I really have no idea what you're talking about.