I'm curious whether you are still an emacs user. I'm a relative emacs noob, having started using it around the turn of the century, and I can't imagine how much time I would have wasted learning the editor of the moment over and over.
I still use it every day. Still learning new things - and probably will be for the remainder of my time here.
Otoh, how much time have you wasted customizing your editor? I know it's a lot for me! :-)
It's sort of a palette cleanser. "Ehhh, I don't feel like working what I'm supposed to be working on, I think there's this urgent emacs feature I should figure out..."
My approach is to put aside a dedicated week once a year.
I started with zmacs in '87. it seemed so old and such an established part of the canon even then - I can hardly believe it was just a baby, and that I'm still using it as a daily driver 35 years later.