Emacs is not modern, to achieve the functionality of a modern editor/ide, with all the lessons/research done since the 70/80's it's going to take a huge amount of configuring. It's logical that using a modern editor like VS Code would be much more efficient.
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Perhaps you should read the OP again ... your comments are off topic (Edit: obviously--the topic is not editors in general, and I'm obviously not guilty of what the response accuses me of).
Also examine https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html