I'm referencing the "1 hour-task", which from my understanding usually does not demand to customize the editor itself. I mean what task would even demand customizing the editor, which would not be possible with other environments like bash, python, ruby, powershell?
> The easy answer is you want the bells and whistles of the editor, e.g., you want to process your current selection, for example I have a customization to quickly archive the selected piece of text
But you don't need elisp for this. Interweaving external tools is possible in any mature editor, including emacs.
> I'm referencing the "1 hour-task", which from my understanding usually does not demand to customize the editor itself.
I your task involves the same kind of editing, for example, then in emacs it's trivial to write a custom function and bind a key to it, making your task much easier.
> The easy answer is you want the bells and whistles of the editor, e.g., you want to process your current selection, for example I have a customization to quickly archive the selected piece of text
But you don't need elisp for this. Interweaving external tools is possible in any mature editor, including emacs.