Emacs (esp. with org-mode) sits close to the barycenter of the space of problems like this, where the vector sum of "effort to use the solution to solve the problem" and "engineering effort needed to build the solution" is quite low. Building a React web app, or a Visual Basic bespoke app, might yield a nicer to use program, but would require more effort than throwing something together with Emacs Lisp, SQLite, and org-mode.
It's one reason why I won't give Emacs up, again despite half of Hackernews being convinced the VSCode will solve world hunger.
It's one reason why I won't give Emacs up, again despite half of Hackernews being convinced the VSCode will solve world hunger.