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.)
I'm not shocked. Same story with Wordperfect and all its F-keys, and keyboard shortcuts, over Word and its mouse driven UI. Secretaries at the time hated the change.
Text input is so much faster, and of you're typing a lot, keyboard <-> mouse movements slow you down.
I'm still learning how powerful all of Emacs' navigation bindings can be, and I've been using it exclusively since 2010. Never leaving the home row, and not needing a weird keyboard or a million fragile overrides, is a superpower - and one that also applies anywhere GNU readline is available.
