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> You'd be making it hard for someone who already knows Emacs to use it.

It would be a burden for a longtime user to have to enter one keyboard shortcut to move into legacy mode? As opposed to making it weird and difficult for everyone else and then watching Emacs die.

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Sadly emacs as a community is moving too glacially towards user friendliness for the sake of maintaining backwards compatibility. I don't see this trend changing any time soon, so fewer people every year will stick with it.

That's why there are starter kits and configurators like the posted link.

New users should not be recommended to use barebones emacs, because it's too alien. They should use a nicely preconfigured system instead.

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