Heck, Macros are the only reason why you would need vim today. It's really like a programming language with text buffer and chars as your input, and outputs being cursor movements and text.

Everything else something like vscode already provides.

The deal is the kind of text heavy lifting tasks that truly use the power of macros are rare in most modern programming practice. In fact if you are writing repeated patterns of code you are likely doing something very wrong.

Emacs is special in the case that basically all Emacs commands can be automated.

Long back I had written a Twitter thread(Which I now lost), which tried to capture all kinds of editing patterns for you could use macros to go from O(something_crazy) to O(1) equivalent of editing tasks.