A big appeal of Emacs, the infinitely customisable editor, is that you can mold it to perfectly fix your workflow.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Ikea Effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect increases the appeal too though.
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Emacs is still becoming *more* customisable over time! For example, in 2016, the backtrace function became a user-level function. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=27cada035a79b633e856a437dd0e037acc1d61c6
This allows users to introspect, debug or write their own!
OOP tutorials focus too much on describing physical things in the real world. Classes simply provide customisable execution of code.