Emacs is so great out-of-the-box that, unless you're in a terminal, every time you launch it to edit a file, it will take up half its window with a welcome message, until you specifically create a configuration file to disable that. This is particularly frustrating if you just want to use it with its default settings, eg, as root to edit a file.
It's clearly not intended to be reasonable usable without user configuration.
It's clearly not intended to be reasonable usable without user configuration.