I also see the heretics who are just here to take advantage of INSERT mode, the heathens who come to insult our ancient religion, and spies from church of emacs. I find their lack of faith disturbing.
spacemacs has a maintainer problem and some serious debt that needs to be paid before it is a worthy contender in my opinion. the whole you need to run on dev branch and it's many (thousands?) of commits ahead of the main branch and having many many stale/outdated/broken issues is not tenable.
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