I'm not exactly what you're looking for, from Emacs or from the mailing list.
From Emacs, to have as many functionalities working as possible with the least trade-offs and the least bugs and issues as possible. From mailing list, to tell me what Emacs they use and if they have some specific reason to choose it over others.
Is an archaic UI good or bad? It's not an objective matter. I personally saw GNUStep UI to be very much appealing. But it's not widely seen the same by other people.
Is drag-n-drop required?
Not *Required*, of course. I didn't have the opportunity to try it.
I turn off the toolbars and menubars.
I do turn off tool/menu/scroll bars all together anyway. I even turn off the title bar of the frame decoration. (fossdd@pwned.life) <mailto:fossdd@pwned.life>> I used `emacs-wayland` for a while instead of Emacs, because I already use a Wayland compositor I installed the `emacs-wayland` as the first Emacs of my life. Since my whole setup was pure Wayland. But I really need that daemon to stay awake all the time and do not crash when switching desktops, ttys, users and login/logouts. It and many other things appear to not work, and probably will never work, with GTK toolkit of Emacs. (aaronliu0130@gmail.com)> If you've already tried all of them, I don't know what to say. The Arch-maintained repo sounds like the stablest, and "emacs-wayland - with native compilation and PGTK enabled." sounds very appealing to me. That's so enlightening of you, Aaron. ;) -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com