Just the other day I made this comment on the topic of "nvim vs emacs", I think it fits here well:
> editor choice shouldn't be treated like soccer or religion
Oh, I wish there was a choice here. I've been vimming since 2010, the idea of vim modality is an excellent, practical, beautiful model. It's a fantastic idea and the ideas do port. That's why I've used vim-bindings in every editor/IDE/terminal/browser I used.
Emacs, however, is not an editor. It's a Lisp REPL loop with a built-in editor. The only contenders in this space are Light Table, Nightcode, or Lem and none of them truly can compete with Emacs (at least right now), because you can't just ignore forty years of package development. Maybe some more people start using Lem and keep vibe-coding a huge body of Elisp into CL and then maybe we finally see something that can potentially dethrone Emacs.
It's not sports or a religion - you can feverishly love trains and despise airplanes, but you've got to admit, trains just can't replace airplanes, regardless of what you love and believe in.