In that case you were doing it wrong.
With a touch of hyperbole you could say that emacs is there to do 100% of the boilerplate stuff for you so that you can spend 100% of your time thinking.
With a touch of hyperbole you could say that emacs is there to do 100% of the boilerplate stuff for you so that you can spend 100% of your time thinking.
If I can rename a class across my project in 3 keystrokes, then I've automated it. But then I'll try out a dozen names before settling on something. Have I saved time? Perhaps I'd be better off thinking deeply for a minute or two instead.
It's kind of like how Powerpoint has actually increased the time that people spend making presentations. "Look! I can change the title font in one click!" <Spends the next 2 hours fiddling with fonts.>