Exactly this. I was an Emacs user for over a decade but was so frustrated with having to maintain my setup, and different plugins not cleanly cooperating etc. Not to mention the fact that some plugins liked to block the entire UI.
I switched to Helix precisely because of the sane defaults and integrated LSP. It meant I could just install the AppImage and get going, searching the docs for default keybindings whenever I got stuck, etc.
High customizability and extensibility can be a double edged sword.