You might still consider giving it a try. There is a learning curve, but it's a sigmoid with a remarkable slope past the first knee; I don't necessarily buy all of Yegge's boosterism, but I will say that in those places where I've had the reputation of getting stuff done that no one else could and faster than anyone expected, it's been my skill with Emacs that gave rise to the large majority of that reputation.

(I don't necessarily no-sell all that boosterism, either. The most basal ancestor of today's GNU Emacs dates to the mid-1970s; if the 'Lindy effect' holds true, it really is the 100-year editor.)