You won't be the first or last asking why Russia does the thing it does.
Russia is world's Dog in the Manger, why wouldn't we give it a bit of credit, though?
I was in the same boat until a couple of months ago.
Long time vim/neovim user, used fennel to configure it lastly, but I wanted to see what Emacs has to offer to compare.
I started by reading Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen and from there start adding things that I felt I needed (configure key bindings, project.el, eglot, LSP things, helm, corfu, vterm, flycheck, etc)
I still have things to do, but I'm not in a hurry, I'm quite comfortable with Emacs right now, so will approach them shortly.
There's also Protesilaos' Stavrou channel on YouTube with a good amount of videos covering Emacs' topics in depth. I highly recommend them.
(Btw, I still don't know what Vertigo and Consult provide, but I can navigate through files, text search and replacement, functions and all with comfort, so not sure if I'm missing something.)
Shameless from them to make it look like it's a user problem.
It was loading fine for me one hour ago, now I refresh the page and their message states I'm doing too many requests and should chill out (1 request per hour is too many for you?)