I would really like to get email, calendar, and slack working in emacs but I have very little spare time to tinker and figure it out, and have yet to find walkthroughs for dummies dumb enough for me. I, too, was a vimmer fist, with a desire for org mode, and Doom Emacs came along and made it very easy for me to get up and running with emacs.
> the Emacs web browser built in to 24.4+
Wait.... Emacs comes with a built-in web browser!?
It comes with a wowser. EWW stands for Emacs Web Wowser.