I also immediately thought of Nano Emacs when I saw this article.
There is a short talk (6min) from EmacsConf 2021 where the creator of Nano Emacs talks about his reasons for designing a simpler interface, I found it really interesting:
Yeah it was kind of a mind blower to me. I'm not in a big hurry to settle an opinion but I have a feeling these are ideas that I'll be exploring and influenced by for the rest of my career.
There is a short talk (6min) from EmacsConf 2021 where the creator of Nano Emacs talks about his reasons for designing a simpler interface, I found it really interesting:
https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/design/