I’ve been using Emacs since 2008. The first time I opened it I hated it. “Why is Save C-x C-s and not C-s?” “Why isn’t exit just C-q?” Once I got passed it’s most obvious oddities and started looking at how to make it function more like the IDEs I was used to (Visual Studio mostly) I couldn’t stand this weird Lisp language either… “How do I even search for the meaning of this?? (setq myvar `((foo . ,@bar) #'string=)) What are all these symbols doing all over there?”

Not so much anymore… almost my entire life exists in Emacs now, and a sizeable chunk of my time is spent making everything else either more like Emacs or possible in Emacs.