True.
Emacs has a different model of configuration. It is natural for people familiar with lisp machines or smalltalk programmers but is alien for the rest of first time users.
But the original comment was not about this expectation mismatch. It listed things that have been around for quite a while and do not even need any extra configuration outside of enabling.
Even with a lot of stuff built in, it's not very accessible and it's a chore to setup some things that could be just a checkbox or something.