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I'm saying some communities build on pseudo-elitism.I'm not saying that Emacs users are better than you, I'm saying that you lack the experience to judge the value of Emacs; and that your lack of experience makes your assessments of Emacs basically too shallow to contribute meaningfully: in short, you don't know enough about Emacs to tell if your dismissal of it was premature, or if the things that turned you off were just the unfamiliar tail end of a coherent system.
It should be obvious that there are many many people who have spent more time actually using Emacs than you, and almost none of them by force or by fiat: literally nobody asked me to use Emacs, nobody started me using it, I received little or no assistance in learning it, I was mocked for using it as a teenager, and I spent most of my time with Emacs on teams of droves of people who do not use Emacs and evangelize other editors. At the outset, I simply wanted to try it, and I gave it a fair shake; I continued to use it because paid off for me.
The fact that people willingly start, and continue, using Emacs of their own volition with no external help or encouragement, should tell you that there are merits to the program that outweigh the things that turned you off before you gained any meaningful understanding.