To be fair, emacs is a gui program with real mouse support and images and menus and buttons. But it doesn’t really do popups and most people hide the menu bar and toolbar.

The main difference is really between an IDE massively focused on one language and a general purpose editor which is inevitably less integrated.

But I basically agree in that I think it basically doesn’t matter. Especially as far more time is spent reading code or thinking about it (or inserting it) than on editing operations. The only things which I think are really useful to have are jump-to-definition (and return) and fast easy to access search.