I guess the issue that is being handled here thought is that, just like the piano, the road for those actions to become unconscious is a long painful one.
When I started using Golang for work the first thing that I did was buy GoLand from jetbrains. It just works, and I'm paid for "playing piano", not for "learning how to play piano"
I wish I was able to use emacs professionally but until I'm able to dedicate (usually unpaid) time to learn it, it's just easier to use something else
Also I can move around in emacs and do stuff with macros that has saved me a lot of time. And emacs rarely has problems, unlike visual studio, which crashes occasionally and is permanently sending my dual-core to 100% of both.
Emacs refactoring, heh, not so good... So I use both, do main editing in emacs.
Really? I've always found emacs to be on the slower side of things (not nearly as bad as jetbrains / visual studio, of course) and many keyboard commands to be unnecessarily clunky. I don't know how many times I've given emacs a go, and yet I can't seem to get nearly as proficient as I am with VSCode (and sublimetext before that).
I know part of it is that I don't typically work in languages where having a live REPL up is terribly useful, so emacs support tends to be a bit... second class.
I think my biggest gripe is that there are actually two mountains to climb. First, you have to become proficient with emacs- the chords and so forth. Then you have to find the magical combination of plugins that work together on your operating system with the magical configuration that brings emacs up to par with things that I consider to be table stakes for a good development experience. Doom emacs probably got me the closest there, I think, but struggling to become moderately productive when I already have a tool with which I am extremely productive seems entirely pointless.
Most "normal" people just used other "more visual" editors.
As I learned from the masters I started using more and more both vim for unix tasks and programming and emacs for lisp. Now I use 65%vim, 30% emacs, 5% other editors.
Both of those editors are extremely powerful. But you need to know how to use them. It is not painful for the master to use them, in fact it is automatic and instantaneous and faster than any other editor, a thought becomes an action without conscious intervention, like you thing in playing Do minor in an instrument and your fingers do it automatically, you want to erase a line or replace a word, you think on it, is done.
They are like musical instruments. You could have the best piano or violin in the world, if a mediocre player plays them, you get bad sound.
Most people would be better served with a simple electronic piano or a tablet with lights that point to the next notes of the song, and auto correct them when they play a bad note.