Comment by subsection1h

> I have to admit it looks dated.

I assume this is because most Emacs users, especially Emacs devs, disable the menu bar, tool bar, tab bar, scroll bar, etc.

> default keyboard shortcuts not working

Yeah, I think a new Emacs installation should prompt the user to choose between something like "Common keyboard shortcuts" and "Classic Emacs shortcuts". It would take me only a few minutes to set up all the common keyboard shortcuts for a new Emacs installation, but I think it should be just one setting.