Right off the bat, I hit the following speedbumps:
+ No replace-regexp
+ No set-fill-prefix (or it's unbound)
+ Default fill prefix detection doesn't work like GNU emacs (e.g. no
way to fill a long paragraph with a prefix of "> " for quoting
email)
+ No ispell-word (or any spell checker) on C-$
+ C-x b tab doesn't give me the list of buffers I expect
+ No keyboard navigability in file selection dialog! I hit C-x C-f
and end up in this weird web 2.0 world where I'm (no joke) prompted to
"Drag files here".
So.. it's cute. But other than the author (or someone else willing to reimplement the bits of emacs they need) I don't see to whom it's going to appeal. Serious emacs users aren't the target demographic.