Over the course of my career I've moved from Emacs (in-terminal), to Spacemacs (emacs mode), to Spacemacs (vim mode), to Doom Emacs (vim mode), to neovim (in-terminal).

After a while of using both emacs and vim text editing, I found the vim way much easier for me. I used emacs with "evil mode" (vim keybindings) for a long time, but I wasn't using all of the other features the author here speaks about. So I found it easier to run Neovim alone instead of the extra complexity of getting emacs to behave like vim.