I did try Doom Emacs though. I felt it was usable right out of the box with nice defaults. But then again I haven't used it for a serious time length (I prefer Emacs keybinding, rare I know).
I also empathise with tool fatigue. I haven't significantly touched my Emacs config in a while, been in strictly bug fixing mode. That does mean I shouldn't update major version of Emacs, or the packages, but I sometimes do that anyway :/
Last time I blindly updated Spacemacs itself I lost an hour getting it back to a workable state, sigh. Learned my lesson since then. I do both: (a) completely back up my ~/.emacs.d to another directory and (b) write down the last-known GIT commit hash of Spacemacs. Paid off huge dividends half the time I did updates ever since.
I love Emacs but it seems certain things won't ever get resolved (like macOS slow rendering although that's like 70% attributed to huge fonts with a lot of emojis in them so I got that part sorted at least).
Again, thanks for the support -- much appreciated! I'll go through the links plus will try to resolve my Org Mode problem in particular -- eventually.
https://www.spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION.html#orgheadline...
I did try Doom Emacs though. I felt it was usable right out of the box with nice defaults. But then again I haven't used it for a serious time length (I prefer Emacs keybinding, rare I know).
I also empathise with tool fatigue. I haven't significantly touched my Emacs config in a while, been in strictly bug fixing mode. That does mean I shouldn't update major version of Emacs, or the packages, but I sometimes do that anyway :/