Pasting in a few lines is a HUGE step, because how are beginning Emacs users supposed to even know they are supposed to do that?
I see this every year with new undergraduates at uni -- they are often aware of vim, Emacs, VSCode and eclipse, and play around with them. They don't have any reason to believe Emacs and vim are good, and any step to get stuck at loses you a bunch of users.
Some students take up vim, but Emacs gets almost no use, as it doesn't (to the beginner user) seem to do anything well, and everything is hard to do.
I see this every year with new undergraduates at uni -- they are often aware of vim, Emacs, VSCode and eclipse, and play around with them. They don't have any reason to believe Emacs and vim are good, and any step to get stuck at loses you a bunch of users.
Some students take up vim, but Emacs gets almost no use, as it doesn't (to the beginner user) seem to do anything well, and everything is hard to do.