When you said compute minimalism, I thought you were going to talk about using a RISC-V processor and using Emacs for any text editing. I'd say that's the real compute minimalism. xD
Surely there is no universe in which Emacs hits the definition of a minimal anything?
Look, as long as nobody looks inside my .doom.d directory nobody has to get hurt.
Good ol' Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping holds up well these days when the competition is stuff like vscode. But yeah, I think vim is probably a bit more minimal.