I just quit learning emacs, I was learning e-lisp and spacemacs and trying to customize the IDE to be close to a pycharm experience.

It just didn't seem to be possible, I could get a graphical debugger for a while until I found realgud and even then there's no support for a locals window or doing console input

Find symbols, the anaconda implementation by default just gave me a list of matches without context or file/line number etc which isn't very useful.

It just felt like there can't be enough users with enough demand for things you get in an IDE for it to be worth getting into Emacs for programming.

I'd love to get all comfy with a very customizable text editor but none seem there: Emacs => above Atom => similarly missing some basic python debugging features VSCode => Evil microsoft and I think had limited support for customizing windows (If I wanted to use a customizable text editor and not an IDE the first thing I'd need/want to implement would be embedding Jupyter cells.