It has only been a few months since the Emacs community went through an extended discussion on how to make the Emacs editor “popular
again”. As the community gears up for the Emacs 28 development cycle,
(after the Emacs
27.1 release in August)
that discussion has returned with a vengeance. The themes of this
discussion differ somewhat from the last; developers are concerned about
making Emacs — an editor with decades of history — seem “modern” to attract
new users.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Toward a “modern” Emacs