I don't think using a text editor is limiting, using an IDE certainly is. When using Visual Studio, you're definitely limited to Windows. When you're using an IDE, they lock you into a certain set of paradigms.
An editor like Vim or Emacs ia great because eventually
_the editor adapts itself to the programmer and not the other way around_.
Every other configuration of Emacs and Vim have been different, suiting the programmer writing it. People have distros of Emacs/Vim
VSCode, Visual Studio, Intellij may be fighting for mindshare on laptops, but if you ssh into a server, I bet you're using vim.
I mean, sometimes I run vim in the integrated terminal in VSCode. :) Whatever is quicker/handy. I know I answered that question with "VSCode, Sublime, Emacs, and Vim".
I'm reading that "simple" word on the GP as something that doesn't impose a workflow on you. (What's ironically best described by "versatile", but somebody not used to the tool can not use most of the functions.)
By any other meaning, emacs and vim wouldn't qualify.
Vanilla emacs without config and plugins, started as a terminal application is a simple editor, just the same as vim. Yes.
But that is entirely besides the point.
The parent was outraged how developers are unlikely to use only simple text editors. And the phrase he was taking an issues with didn't say that emacs is a simple editor either. So you're either willingly misinterpreting everything or just unable to read and understand simple sentences.
they're very rare but do exist.