I would be in favour of the defaults being "prettified" or "modernised" a bit, but I don't agree that it's that big of an issue. Actually, I'm not sure if ther

I would be in favour of the defaults being "prettified" or "modernised" a bit, but I don't agree that it's that big of an issue. Actually, I'm not sure if there are any "major" issues... Development has been phenomenally good the last few years, the maintainers have been brilliant. There's a steady stream of contributors, new cool stuff (LSP support, native compilation, etc), improvements are happening regularly. In summary, Emacs seems to be rock solid, and the quaint little splash screen when you run it for the first time does not seem close to keeping people away! Maybe we need to uglify it :) But sure, yeah, prettier defaults, why not. I'm not convinced it'd suddenly get more people using Emacs, though, as Doom Emacs already exists, and that's very pretty and well-documented and modern-looking and so on.