You seem to think there is only one version of Emacs, and that its entire monolithic developer community is totally unified in its opinion and philosophy and mission, so you can accuse the entire community of being hypocritical if there is any dissent or diversity or competition.
I just wrote a long list of proprietary operating systems one version of Emacs ran on, and even linked to the source code proving it, which RMS opposes so vehemently that he calls it "Software Hoarder Emacs", and jokingly accuses its developers of burning his house down.
If you really think RMS's mission to destroy all non-free operating systems is "ostensible", you definitely don't know him or his reputation.
>ostensible /ɒˈstɛn(t)sɪbl/ adjective: stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
You're overcomplicating this. If RMS and his lackeys were so hellbent on ridding prop OS's from the world, they could move marginally closer to that goal by simply deleting w32* ns* and android* from GNU Emacs. That they instead collectively spend several man-months per year stressing about their upkeep means they care more about expanding their userbase than any bullshit notion of "freedom."
It seems you're missing the point - that example is 'reductio ad absurdum' - a showcase of the logical extreme of capabilities, not an illustration of concrete practicality.
You seem to be blinded by your sunk cost, social proof, tribal identity, status quo, and other biases, so you rather reject novel ideas than accept their practical superiority in certain scenarios.
Emacs, in every respect, is a pinnacle of text editing in its digital form. Half a century of evolution and refinement with fundamental architectural advantage - a Lisp runtime that happens to edit text.
It makes it possible to edit any text that lives within its running instance and beyond - just about anything it can reach - containers, kubernetes pods, browsers. I can edit the URL of any tab in my browser directly from my editor; remote computers - I can edit a commit message on an EC2 instance; heck, even spacecrafts a million miles away - if it can gain access. More than that - there's universal bidirectionality - I can push any text into Emacs - from my terminal, my browser, or any app. If I allow access to it, I can even push to Emacs from remote computers.
I'm, by the way, not an 'Emacs purist' - I use Neovim daily, and sometimes VSCode too. I have used various JetBrains products - I was a heavy user of IntelliJ for almost a decade. Yet, getting exposure to Emacs capabilities proved that I was wrong in my prejudice and I should've tried it sooner. Like I said: it's a mindset-changing endeavor - without a heartfelt attempt to use it, it's unlikely you'll ever get what I'm even talking about.