Workflow on midsized personal project with editor that I'm comfortable with and have customized over the majority of time I've been programming: work.

Look, obviously VS Code has emacs beat in the vast majority usability features. Emacs works for a lot of what I work on. For the things it doesn't work for, I use the tool that works better.

I have lots of personal qualms with emacs, but to declare it "maximally unsuitable," is overkill.