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This just reminded me of Emacs. There's not a whole lot of menus. All the available commands (also variables and values) can be searched and autocompleted. The initial hump is hard to get over, but after that things are so discoverable and extensible it's a pleasure.

I recently switched to VS Code for creature comforts that come from a much large ecosystem and using more modern OS affordances. VS Code gets close but not quite as pleasant as Emacs.

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I wish LibreOffice, GIMP etc. had an M-x way of finding the commands, and a describe-function to ask what exactly a given command is doing. Or C-h b way of sifting through keyboard shortcuts, in just another buffer with search and everything.

There is a similar thing for Blender: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/40170

GIMP has something similar, triggered by pressing /. I discovered it way too late, but I haven't touched a menu ever since.

Libreoffice has a feature request for such a function [1].

[1]: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91874

Wow, thank you!

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