No reason to be offended.
I am merely stated my opinion on the subject , obviously personal taste plays a role . I never said your experiences are invalid, I can assure you if that was my intention you will be clearly reading it inside my text. Afterall I was the one that recommended you in IRC to bring this discussion about Alt+TAB in the mailing list to find a solution to your problem.�� I do however disagree with the idea that emacs has a good interface and I am far from the only one. Again we come down to personal opinion. But of course you are welcome to disagree, I have no problem with that nor I am here to convince people that my opinion is valid and their own is invalid.
I am familiar with some of the features you described as I already said , I am an emacs users for quite some time now. Not an emacs power user , just a guy that loves to use emacs from time to time. Because of the opinion I have expressed, I try to keep as few windows or buffers open as possible.
The remark on shortcuts is not just ranting, I use Blender for 3d graphics on daily basis and shortcuts have become a serious issue. The application has grown so large that is unmaintainable to demand from user to memorise 1000 shortcuts so there is a very active discussion between Blender developers how to deal with this problem. A recent addition was pie menus, right click menus that use mouse gestures to navigate as quickly as a shortcut but with no demand on memorization. Its not an easy problem to solve by any means, so yes when you said that emacs has solved it, I have to confess I wished that it was that easy for me . But I do value your opinion and your experience even If I disagree.