I switched from Vim to Spacemacs years ago and I was generally willing to roll up my sleeves to configure it in exchange for the additional power and freedom. But now, with the maturity of these pre-configured distributions and the nice things like LSP, you don't even need to fiddle much with elisp to have a solid environment working for you. I can now imagine introducing Emacs as a first text-editor / IDE to a novice (OK, maybe not with the Vim layer enabled).