I have looked at Doom, etc. but I'm definitely turned off by the level of complexity of these "distros", especially Doom, which is essentially more divergent from Emacs than Vim. Multi-thousand line config, it's own management cli, documentation, packages, etc...
Since I'm looking to "learn" Emacs I'd love to start with Vanilla and add in things as required as you would with any other editor. Starting with something like Doom makes it near impossible to untangle what is coming from where and trim down to exactly what you want, which is sort of the point of using Emacs in the first place.
Since I'm looking to "learn" Emacs I'd love to start with Vanilla and add in things as required as you would with any other editor. Starting with something like Doom makes it near impossible to untangle what is coming from where and trim down to exactly what you want, which is sort of the point of using Emacs in the first place.