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Actually, it's a very common misconception that Emacs is purely keyboard-oriented and not accessible to people who need to interface with it in other ways. Emacs is actually really good with that kind of stuff because user input is abstracted that makes different interface more permissible. For example, if you're one-handed, you can use peddles for modifier keys or just 100% peddles altogether the way that transcribers do it. You can literally change the entire interaction paradigm you need to operate functions, thus why we have Evil-mode and Spacemacs.
Emacs is also interface-able by voice. Combined with one of the three high-quality completion modes available in Emacs specifically for basic text input, you can get a pretty high wpm using strictly voice interface, and all Emacs functions are still accessible to you, so you're never trapped or forced to rely on someone else in order to refine your experience. This is great for people with arthritis or no limbs. There's a video on YouTube that shows you how to do it.
If you're blind, Emacs has a very sophisticated audio desktop. Besides its quality, it's also the most thorough desktop on the market, just by nature of the scope of Emacs. And, yes, you can actually use Emacs to play videos. You can embed an mpv window into an Emacs buffer via EXWM and issue commands to an mpv session via emms. This is true for a lot of media players, including vlc, ogg123, and mpd. I prefer to listen to my music via mpv, because Emacs handles all of my music management. You can also browse the web. I browse the web mostly via w3m, although, for this site specifically, I'm writing this post via Emacs and then pushing it to Surf via exwm-edit. I can then in turn use all my favorite Emacs bindings to control Surf via EXWM's simulation keys. Naturally, this broad scope of abilities is very useful for blind people, as Emacs' audio desktop can represent it all. So Emacs is very use-able to blind people, too.
And, of course, if you're a blind and limbless, you can use both of those devices together and have a very comparable experience to that of a normal Emacs user. If you're blind, limbless, and mute, there's probably no helping you unless you have a webcamera and one of those eye trackers. Fortunately, keypresses in Emacs are assigned functions in precisely the same way as keypresses, so it's theoretically feasible to navigate Emacs solely by mouse, although it might be slow. To be fair, most mouse navigation is unnecessarily slow.
As for as "bullshit" goes, Elisp is very technically limited. For text, it works fast enough, but I found that playing gifs in Emacs, while decent in a single buffer, can't really be done on a large scale. That has less to do with the limitations of Lisp and more to do with the fact that Emacs is intended to be highly-portable, thus not getting a lot of feature-improvements or optimization that would be exclusive to a Unix platform.
The tradeoff is that Emacs is consummately integrated. Even for non-Elisp programs, if they're good Unix programs, they can be assimilated into Emacs workflow discreetly, and you might never even know, as with w3m.el. Most Emacs modules can be applied to other modes that weren't even intended by their creator. The benefit of this is that very little effort in Emacs gets wasted, and more Universal packages like Helm are extremely mature for the few resources put in.