If you don’t want to spend 20yrs to get better at Emacs, use a spaced repetition software like Anki to learn all the shortcuts. I use native Emacs keybindings because they are way easier to remember and compose well with a multitude of emacs packages without conflicts. Right now I can remember over 100 Emacs bindings. Once you remember many shortcuts they slowly become muscles memory just like learning to drive. At this phase, you don’t think about editing anymore, your fingers do the right thing just like a musician playing a piano. After this stage you get more and more greedier, you start making your own macros that do stuff you want coz lisp based syntax lets you do whatever you want with least effort compared to JavaScript,Lua or any other language.

Step 1 is memorising shortcuts, use anki to do it with least effort. It only takes 5-10 minutes a day.