How can you make that judgment in earnest? The posts you see are guides. No one is going to post ‘I’m doing this in emacs right now, for x hours’. How can you say people are configuring more than using, when you have no data on ‘using’? With that said I agree with the general sentiment. It does take a lot of configuring compared to some other editor. I’d say my configuring/working fraction is 0.1. Emacs rewards study though.