I wasn't ignoring it, if you notice my final argument is for cross platform and FOSS stuff: Atom, Visual Studio Code.
There's even good native editors if you want that, Scite comes to mind.
Anyway, my point was just don't dismiss out of hand, don't belittle other people. Of course, if you're happy with Emacs, continue to be happy.
Oh, and the irony of this is me railing against Emacs/Vim when I'm also a Vim user and have been for at least 10 years. I say also because I've been using VS Code quite a bit lately.
>One major reason for me to use Emacs and not newer software is that it is not only cross-platform but also gives some confidence that I will be able to use it in twenty years from now on a new platform.
You're ignoring the first half of the sentence:
BBEdit - not on Linux
Notepad++ - not cross platform
Textmate - not cross platform
Sublime - cross platform - but can I see the source? If not, I have little faith it will be around in 20 years.
My (heavily customized) Emacs environment on Windows gives me the same experience as in Linux. No warts at all.