Why not just use vscode if you want a more featured experience, and vim/neovim if you want a minimalistic experience?
(not including the fact that Microsoft owns vscode and that some parts are not open source, im aware of that, so no need to mention it)
Such a weird and lazy question. emacs is over forty years old, has whole applications written in it and people have slowly modified their own configs for decades to be thousands of lines of code.