Recent install of Emacs 30 and Doom 3.0 via https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds (MacOS) is feeling very nice.

Emacs actually is friendly! apropos and all of the describe commands make it /discoverable/.

Literate configs and tangling?! I finally feel the end game.

Yes, you probably should read a book at the same time on the side to give you a higher perspective on fundamentals. Sure, some other tools are simpler to get started.

If I could drop everything I'd make a simple emacs config for kids with like a turtles mode and maybe a sound sequencer, then teach them functional programming first. Hah