“I perceive Emacs as a huge ship where people embark to travel around the planet. However the ship is heavy and consumes a great deal of fuel to effect only slight changes in direction. It is difficult to find captains for this ship. Its voyages do not fully track the mainstream routes, where the active and diverse crowd is. This is because captains are not that concerned with the mainstream, and also because when corrections become unavoidable, its inertia is such that it always lags a bit from the aimed route. So this ship very slowly diverges, progressively isolating its happy passengers from the rest of the world.