scombridae

Adoption rates of intuitive IDEA and Visual Studio, while not quite as old, have long pushed Emacs into niche territory. Emacs hasn't disappeared only in the sense any venerable UNIX utility hasn't.

Neither antecedent (vscode dies) nor consequent (emacs survives) is at all assured.

Article raised insignificant, pathological counter-arguments:

If robbery is punishable by death, then thieves are more likely to kill their victims to squelch witnesses.

Since suicide was religiously verboten, suicidal mothers engaged in capital crimes to enlist the authorities to off them.

You clearly paraphrased her quote beyond recognition.

Causally linking glaring deficiencies (long lines, concurrency) to overriding virtues (extensibility) is a weak but common snow job aimed at emacs's critics who know nothing of emacs's internals. For this emacs critic who knows quite a bit about emacs's internals, I call you out.

There's only one reason for emacs's many wtf frailties. No one's paying to fix them.