emacs used to be my great enemy, until i met someone SO into emacs and elisp, in each of his dual monitor he had emacs opened. With the two instances sharing the cursor (unless it was one emacs opened in two windows, but i think this is way harder to code). He had no mouse and was surfing with emacs, reading/writing his mails from emacs, had a kanban on emacs... That force respect.
Now i tried evil mode and while i'm still using vim8, i might try to learn elisp during my sabbatic year.