Emacs does those things too, these days. It's still snappier than anything else I've tried recently.
Another example is the Enlightenment window manager. It was considered a little heavy, but good looking. But because there was a large hiatus in development, it got "stuck in the past" and now, it is one of the lightest there is.
I'm just kidding. Don't want to start a fight here.
But those wars are long over anyway, these days. One might just as well fight over whether the monolith on Earth's moon is better than the one on Europa, or vice versa.