I've been a long time emacs user (15 yrs). After vscode was released, I abandoned emacs for most of my tasks. The effort to configure emacs is just too much when vscode does it seamlessly. Would you rather focus on the task at hand or maintaining your editor configuration! Setting up code navigation (jumping to a function and back, seeing all references) for C++ code was significantly complex to setup for emacs (compared to vscode). I choose productivity.

Funnily enough the language server protocol makes it a charm for all editors (including nvim and emacs) to use the exact same code intelligence as vscode does. And I find the emacs and vim experience even better since I only have to add the lsp and the respective language plugin to a text file and that's it.

https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot is developed by a core Emacs developer who plans to mainline it. It works great.