If you feel overwhelmed in trying out Emacs, always remember, you don't have to switch cold-turkey. You can keep working with your previous editor and use Emacs in your spare time. Or go 50-50. Or any other method that keeps the initial time of not being quite as productive from being a significant downside. Once you get the hang of it, you can still try it out for work and recognize small issues in the workflow, which you can then try to find fixes for in your spare time or spare time projects.
Personally, I am using Emacs for everything related to plain text files. I have benefited at previous jobs massively from already having solved some issues on my own time.
I currently use nano for a lot of my plain text or markdown editing inside my terminal, and VSCode or Visual Studio for a lot of my IDE needs. I just keep hearing good things about how emacs can be a useful and cohesive system so I'm interesting in giving it a try haha
Personally, I am using Emacs for everything related to plain text files. I have benefited at previous jobs massively from already having solved some issues on my own time.