Making Emacs popular again

Atom was there first on the JavaScript point, and seems to have gone even further to make every little thing pointedly modularized and extensible. Yet VSC came out on top. Maybe someone who used both editors can speak to why. My only guess is that the first-class (and conspicuous) git integration in VSC became a killer feature for people who wanted an editor equipped to interact with the burgeoning GitHub/GitLab community but who weren't totally comfortable with the command line interface.