> Emacs brings nothing new to the table with respect to editing model, it's essentially notepad

Wow, and here I thought I had seen all derogatives about Emacs ;-) But claiming that it doesn't bring anything new compared to Notepad is really strange.

1. Emacs predates Notepad by one or two decades. 2. Have you actually had a look at what is actually included in Emacs? I am not talking about mail readers and other "apps" inside emacs. I mean just for editing text in a non-mode specific way. Things like rectangular cut and paste, vertically aligning stuff, infinite undo, undo restricted to the selection (region) and many many more stuff. That Notepad doesn't have.