If rms doesn't understand org-mode, that seems to be pretty indicative of what the real problems underlying emacs' lack of popularity are.

I suspect that org-mode is responsible for more people using emacs than any other package by a large margin. Not understanding org mode suggests to me that rms is no longer on the same page as most of the users.

I know there's a lot of other good stuff in emacs, but org-mode seems to be particularly key.