Would I recommend #emacs #EXWM as daily driver? No. But I also won't stop living in it. #GlassCannon https://orys.us/v6
I think I was able to use it as EMACS without much customization, but getting all my laptop fuctonality to work took some configuration (a good bit from the I3WM and Arch documentations).
I wrote about a bunch of such things when I was getting started, at https://orys.us/exwm . Battery, screen lights, wifi, etc