Yes. I started programming in ~ca 2010 when I went to uni and we mostly programmed in Java with Netbeans, so using Emacs wasn't exactly natural for me. The worst thing is the keybindings which don't conform remotely to anything modern.

I think the biggest issue is that people are simply intimidated by learning Emacs from the bottom up themselves. It has an incredibly extensive tutorial baked in. It's almost completely self-referential which distinguishes it from most stuff people engage with today. And that's the crucial part I think because if you start copying other people's configs around or just ask stackoverflow I think you're not going to have a good time. Emacs for me was the first complex thing where I basically could have turned the internet off and just look at it myself.

I honestly credit Emacs with no less than curing me of a weird learned helplessness I got from my awful education that threw tools at me where I had no hope of understanding what they do.