http://emacs.sexy/ points to a bunch of useful resources, including an Awesome Emacs which points to a bunch more. Tuhdo's tutorials feature a bunch of animated gifs about his use/setup, which is quite nice.

I haven't tried distributions like spacemacs or doom-emacs (which is lighter-weight than spacemacs, with fewer abstractions above emacs). I think emacs is software which benefits from being well understood by the user, to the extent of "if something breaks I can fix it".