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Thanks a lot for your response.
I will consider leaving prelude away, and dive into my own Emacs configuration. I am afraid of the time-consuming experience that it will be, but I hope it's worth it (and seeing the responses here, I definitely think it is).
I think one has to be pragmatic, and only put effort to features that are actually useful. Don't put hours writing an elisp function which only saves you 10 seconds in a month. I'm saying this, because I had to stop myself from spending time on Emacs. I realized that my config is OK for me. I still have a lot of ideas how to make it better, but I simply don't do them, because it doesn't matter too much. Of course, I still do smaller tweaks, but otherwise I spend my time on more useful things. If someone had told me this before I started using emacs, they would have saved several days of not-too-useful emacs configuration for me. Of course, it was fun, I did it as a hobby, but still, it wasn't the smartest way to spend my free time.
Learning emacs via the emacs for scratch setup drive me into learning elisp. I'm no guru but it did set me up with a really solid foundation.