Not OP, but macOS here on a MacBook Pro less than a year old. Emacs has always tempted me, but a number of commands take roughly 2-5x the time compared to something like vscode.

Every time I get back to trying out emacs again, I find myself wondering why I would bother with the massive time sink to get it customized to be a sub-par equivalent to another tool that works better for me.

Doom emacs comes the closest for pre-configured setups, but even that isn't halfway to the productivity of what I am trying to replace.

What I really wish is sublime had gone with something other than python for plugins, and was more scriptable overall...