Comment by xlii

Obviously Kakoune is much simpler than Emacs, so face variability, very interactive UI is not there (though there'd be nothing preventing writing it, but I doubt anyone wants it enough).

As for transition - I always was somewhat of an UNIX guy, so I replaced Swiper/Occur/Consult with delegating to shell. Kakoune has just enough utilities to create a on-keystroke-updated-buffer so I'm happy with that. In some languages I go as much to create "find functions" special mode - composition with shell is easier than Lisp - I rarely have to read documentation.

For Git I use Jujutsu (so I stopped using Magit long time ago) but Kakoune has a very nice "!commmand<ret>" utilities. It's nothing more than a "C-u M-!", but positioning of feature differs.

So the transition is mainly about delegation, not sticking to one application, but instead finding utility that does it and use that instead.