Emacs did not invent the mouse cursor interface.
> It was “bloated and slow”.
This comes from not understanding how emacs works. Yes, it has games, no, it is not loaded until you load it. It means nothing, it does not mean bloat.
> I think we’re just missing each other here. The best features of eMacs spread to other editors.
I think we might - it's Emacs not eMacs.
> As for the scenario, I don’t see that as a hellish situation. I’ve been using vim for a while. Im actually ok at it.
Great! I love vim. In fact I used it for 15 years before switching. I would not be using emacs as my everything if evil-mode was not a thing.
> Do I regret learning it? Hell yeah. Lol. But at least I got vim mode to soothe the wound a little
Sometimes I think the same thing.. Everytime there is no vi mode I get annoyed. I try to be open to new software, but cua-mode (or default emacs keys) is not it for me.