The Emacs dumper dispute

I've used emacs for 20+ years now as my main editor. And, frankly, I never really got into its lisp ways. In fact, I've always found its reliance on Lisp to be an impediment to my use of it. At this point I've been shopping around for a replacement for about 2 or some years now, with nothing really good enough yet (or just not enough time to fairly evaluate some of the replacements in full.) So reading this just makes me think that I should spend some more time on those alternatives ...