I use Emacs but also completely 'hijacked' the way it works with keyboard shortcuts, making it similar to a GUI editor and ignoring/disabling typically emacs-y chords.
Good thing being that Emacs is powerful enough to completely change itself without much effort.
I did exactly this but was always too afraid to admit it publicly, because of Emacs 'purism' users.
I love Emacs exactly because of how highly customizable everything is (without other editors bloat) but equally because I can leverage the huge user-base to not spend an infinity amount of time on customizing.
Although I appreciate other people's experience may be different with vi/vim/emacs, in my personal case I don't have to remote into other machines so I can get away with a custom init.el on my machine.
Good thing being that Emacs is powerful enough to completely change itself without much effort.