That would sort of be the worst of both worlds for me: my problem with Vim is that many of the fundamentals are a bit wonky. Elisp is vastly better than vimscript, the macro system of Vim in nice for one-off macros but quickly reaches its limit and becomes hard to manage if you try to use it to implement advanced functions etc... It's improved quite a lot these past few years (notably because of neovim and other forks) but Emacs has been dealing with that stuff since basically forever.
Basically I want Vim with an Emacs backend. I don't need a bajillion plugins, but I want the things that I use to be easily tweakable and customizable, something that Vim struggles with and Emacs excels at in my experience.
Honestly, as someone who transitioned from vim to emacs for Clojure development, I didn't find any great benefit to Doom or Spacemacs vs. reading some init.el files on github and setting up my own config. I find `use-package` to be the best package for managing and configuring the various plugins I have installed and was able to get running in an hour or so. If you're used to vim and have tried managing your own config in the past, it probably seems more daunting than it actually is.
