A distro adds extra layers of complexity. If you want to change something you need to know not only how emacs vanilla works, but also specifically how to adapt for your distro.
I found doom fast and pretty powerful out of the box but when I wanted to customize it a bit and saw the mostly unwritten documentation and how it makes everything much more complicated I gave up and returned to my own config.
How come? In this case aren’t they doing the opposite of what’s being asked of them?