There are better complaints than yours. I can't whip up some. I can't even imagine them. But, that doesn't mean they can't exist.
This is your bizarro logic in action.
"Something better surely exists".
Well, no shit Sherlock.
Either 1) do something, 2) propose something better than someone else can implement, or 3) shut up.
Your comments are idiotic. Who told you that there aren't real people out there trying to implement something better than Emacs?
XCode 4's use of an actual parser's AST for code completion, refactoring and syntax highlighting comes to mind. Or Visual Studio's overall integration. Or even Eclipse meta-platform extensibility. Subethaedit's concurrent editing ability. And a lot more stuff, besides...
"Where are my robot ponies and flying-cars, they just have to be" is idiotic.