It's more like Spacemacs. An opinionated, programmable interface to an operating system that allows you to edit and execute text, browse the web, play git and so on. Just that it has a fleshed out GUI toolkit you interface with, unlike Spacemacs which is heavily text oriented.
With the territory also comes that it's somewhat hard for newcomers to understand why the tool is important to longtime converts. The clear use cases seem mundane. 'You can edit text in it'. 'You can execute code in it'. 'It lets you debug programs'. To which one might respond: 'Yeah, so? Why do I need elisp/Smalltalk? My Electron app already does that and it doesn't come with weird Internet nerds.'
If you get into it and later find that it helped you out to be able to deeply inspect or reprogram your notetaking, program execution, feed reader, git environment, then you'll start to think that it has something special. But that might take a while, and most of the way there you could just as well have used some other tool instead.