>Emacs is first and foremost a Lisp interpreter with a built-in text editor and not the other way around.

I've been using emacs as my primary editor since about 2002 and I hate this take. Emacs Lisp is by far the worst part of emacs. It is a horrible language, best kept dark and deep in the vaults, not to be used, unless at the uttermost end of need.

My config, after more than two decades, is about 400 lines, and I consider that excessive.