Moved from Emacs to ST then VSCode a few years ago, but still miss how that community feels (the software, the people, the discussions, EmacsWiki...)
IIRC I used to move around mostly using ido.el, when anything.el and later Helm appeared with their alternative way of displaying results, using half the window.
But then at some point got sick of the text UI and moved to Sublime Text. Probably multi-cursors made me move?
For a few years I remember opening Emacs exclusively for https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/grep-edit.el.
I feel like Emacs is full of those hidden gems that only a hundred people use.