No shit? My heavy emacs days were, indeed, over ten years ago -- I was a deep guru once, but that was probably around 1992. (When I wrote a major mode to serve as the front end for our Ada IDE.)

I've been using it continuously ever since, but not particularly hard: just basic text editing, so I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the functionality. So I hadn't noticed the graphics until my download of the current version today, whapping me upside the head with a logo at startup and buttons along the top...