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Honestly, I do. I love typing M-x with a random word and finding something that does what I wanted to or is pretty close.

> who hears “10k commands” and goes, “wow, perfect”

You have to understand: Those thousands of commands are like songs. You wouldn't pay and subscribe to Spotify if they allowed only a few hundred songs, right? When another editor adds another command, it's not composable. You cannot meddle with it; there are no hooks, no advising. In Emacs, every command is a function, a function you can alter, extend, exploit, or override. So, yes, give me a million elisp functions. I'd love to use them in every weird way possible.

The thing is, the 10k commands don't get in the way. You'll never interact with them, unless you type 'M-x thingiwanttodoandwowitsalreadythere'.