Emacs was sold to me as an editor however, and technically that wasn't a lie.
The distinction you're making is too only technically correct. Emacs is still (also) an editor. I judged its editor abilities and found them lacking. Finally I woke up and understood it's not for me and moved on.
You can stop arguing now.
I don't care what editor you use or like or moved on to. I use Neovim myself. But like I said, Emacs is not just an editor. Come back when you find a better replacement for a "Lisp REPL with a built-in editor", maybe then, the conversation start making sense.