Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
– lots of stuff –

Since we’re talking about newcomers now, I think there are 2c I can share.

• I started sliding down the Emacs slope early this year
  
• My initial use case was Org, as a replacement of Jupyter (I want an editor,
  not a fancy web page)
  
• I use Doom. I can say with a great degree of confidence that it has made the
  transition much easier.
  
• I think the best we can hope for is name the most common paths into Emacs, and
  tell the user what they’re getting into.
  

E.g.

Emacs :: the one and only, configure everything from scratch - know exactly
what’s going on in your config.
Doom :: Adds a bunch of presets for common tasks, and a bunch of helper
functions/optimisations
Spacemacs :: Features feature-rich functionally ’layers’ for common tasks

Whichever you choose, using a version control system such as [git] is highly
recommended. Every now and then you’ll accidentally break something. This allows
you to seamlessly roll back.

Hope that’s of some interest,

Timothy.