Why make Emacs another non-Emacs editor? Having mentored people (programming Clojure) who tried to learn Emacs via Spacemacs or some other "make it dumb" package, even after 6 months, they understood nothing about Emacs. They couldn't solve problems not solved by the "make it dumb" package. While I appreciate the effort going into these packages, I don't see them meeting their goal: Helping people to learn Emacs. They only help people to not learn Emacs while using it like a standard editor.