It does, although I've gathered that I managed to try my last attempt during a period when the released version was unusually buggy around the margins. What I'd frequently find was variants of what usually happened to me with Emacs: (1) find something that wasn't enabled that I wanted to do that could (apparently) be solved by enabling a layer (or installing a package or two), (2) enable that layer (or install that package or two), (3) immediately be confronted with unexpected error messages, (4) go on a bug hunt in which at least half the web search results were variants of "I ran into these unexpected error messages, how can I fix this".

My impression -- obviously as an outsider! -- is that Emacs' immense flexibility comes at the cost of providing a lot more surface area for packages to get in one another's way. When that happens, you need to be willing and able to untangle things -- and while each individual tangle is rarely a big ask, they can add up, especially when you're coming from VSCode or Sublime Text or what have you.