Leave?
I started with vanilla Emacs a couple of years ago, ran C-h t, did that for an hour or two, and began editing joyfully and it hasn't stopped. Picked up new stuff when the need arose.
However, if you want everything looking sexy and modern from the start and you're a cool kid, give this 30 minutes and see what you think:
https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs