In the 2000s I was addicted to Elisp and contributed a ton of OSS code including JDE, EDEE, and tons of other tools.
But... I had just a MASSIVE amount of code that was literally just for me.
Emacs basically became my OS.
Emacs allowed you to just eval code on the fly and the IDE would just adapt. No reload required. So if you wanted to do stupid stuff like make control+enter open the current URL at the cursor, you just write a three line script. Then you add it to your elisp on load.
... but mine got WAY out of hand. It was just mountains of code.
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