It certainly may appear to be broken all the time. But that's the price you pay for using the vast Emacs ecosystem. Emacs over the decades has accumulated an incredible amount of things - built-in and third-party packages, different ways to work on various platforms, protocols, screen-sizes, languages, etc.
There are tons of code written in Emacs-lisp on Github alone. None of them, not a single developer contributed to Emacs ecosystem, has ever gotten paid, except for a few, small, voluntary donations. Almost all of that work is done by individual contributors. If you think about it, Emacs, to a certain degree, defies any logic - the way how it's concocted shouldn't work at all. Yet, it does, and some features of it done is a particular, astonishingly clever way, that no other IDE or editor has ever successfully replicated them.
To become a serious Emacs user, one has to either choose to be austere and handpick the packages to use or has to become really good in debugging the problems when they arise. Learn Emacs lisp, learn how to use built-in profiler, "toggle-debug-on" functions, learn how to investigate slow/failing startup, how Emacs loads packages, and you can update things with no fear.
Yes, sometimes things break (show me a software product with no bugs), but for me, it never takes longer than a few minutes to either find a fix or a workaround. From my perspective - Emacs is very stable.
There are tons of code written in Emacs-lisp on Github alone. None of them, not a single developer contributed to Emacs ecosystem, has ever gotten paid, except for a few, small, voluntary donations. Almost all of that work is done by individual contributors. If you think about it, Emacs, to a certain degree, defies any logic - the way how it's concocted shouldn't work at all. Yet, it does, and some features of it done is a particular, astonishingly clever way, that no other IDE or editor has ever successfully replicated them.
To become a serious Emacs user, one has to either choose to be austere and handpick the packages to use or has to become really good in debugging the problems when they arise. Learn Emacs lisp, learn how to use built-in profiler, "toggle-debug-on" functions, learn how to investigate slow/failing startup, how Emacs loads packages, and you can update things with no fear.
Yes, sometimes things break (show me a software product with no bugs), but for me, it never takes longer than a few minutes to either find a fix or a workaround. From my perspective - Emacs is very stable.