BSAG on Emacs as life project:

You don’t go back to zero each time. Every cycle teaches you more about how you want your personal Emacs to work, about what you need and what you think you want but don’t actually use. On every cycle, the curves of Emacs get smoothed and shaped a bit more to match your grasp.

Absolutely. And as I’m going through a different cycle myself, I appreciate this post even more.