There is an odd aggression against Emacs that typically does lead to people having to go to extra effort to justify why they use it. And I can agree many of the justifications can feel like a stretch. They aren't false, though. Nor are we working on some archaic thing that only we can appreciate.

I'm also always amazed at how we think Emacs is somehow more archaic than anything else in a computer. Getting my kids into computers. It is Scratch to start, than probably crippled Python environments. That they are almost certainly going to break and wonder what happened. We even got started on some Arduino stuff, and their IDE is not bad, necessarily, but don't pretend like it is easy and quick in ways that Emacs isn't. Want to make a small game? Good luck, as there are no other environments for that anymore. (Used to, the computer booted into a BASIC shell in ages past.)

And this is avoiding the environments for content creation. Blender is amazing. And amazingly hard to use/explain. Fusion? TinkerCAD is at least easy to explain. But again, very easy to screw up in. (And I'm growing rather tired of all of the times I come back to a computer with hundreds of tabs in a browser all convinced they need to save data.)

All of that is to say, computers are tough. Period. I hope people can find a comfort zone for creation. But I am not convinced there is a single answer there. And more than happy to share what has worked for me.