Right. IDEs and editors appear, get their hype, some stale, others get forgotten, people get attached and then whine for years about shortcomings and weak support for certain languages and complain about lack of specific features. Or fell into Stockholm syndrome without slightest realization of how miserable and inefficient their workflow has become.
Who remembers Borland C++ Builder? who uses Komodo or TextMate today? And now check the number of projects on Github written in Emacs Lisp.
No matter how popular those shiny, fast and noisy F1 supercars would be - there always will be plenty of enthusiasts who'd rather choose Nascar, with its simplicity, openness and customizability.
No IDE or editor would ever get even close to the power of Emacs. And the power of Emacs lies within its extensibility. I am not worried about other editors or IDEs getting better, faster or shinier. Because Emacs already can do same things better, or will be doing them better someday soon.back
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I coded in emacs for 20+ years and switched to clion last year for c++ work because of things like "good autocompletion" and "refactoring" and "warning about issues before compiling". Emacs has minimal autocompletion facilities, but for ideological reasons it does not and may never have many of the other features.
I still use emacs for non-coding text editing, and sometimes for python code and emergencies, but I've moved away from it big time.
p.s. please fix your formatting, that quote is unreadable.