After using Emacs on and offish for ~ 20 years (combined time would probably be less than a few months!), it's time to learn and adopt it "properly," for good.
This is my setup. It's supposed to be minimal; I've tried Doom, Spacemacs, Prelude, and while they're great, I want to learn how to do things in mostly Emacs itself. I don't see a reason to add an alternative package that "improves Emacs" if I don't know how the vanilla setup works.