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Learn enough to figure out how to use "Use Package" and figure out what packages you like, and what you truly hate about Emacs so you can customize the fuck out of it and BTFO the shitty defaults.
Store your config in GitHub and use GNU Stow to deploy it on each of your machines.
Past that, the only truly fucking "hard" thing is LSP for Emacs for use within modern web dev settings.
The minute that someone makes a config that is as easy as an IDE for React and Typescript projects, then I am convinced Emacs is easy to use so I will agree with your frustration that it is pretty crazy that it has not kept up with other IDEs in this respect.
Otherwise, it's pretty good for Org mode and terminal. That is about all I use my actual old config for.
Spacemacs has gotten me closer to what I want though, but I just wish it was 100x easier with zero effort to get shit working like an IDE.
Maybe Doom is better though. Haven't touched that in ages either.