The cool kids do it.
You can find many screencasts of people doing everything in terminal and proselytising the simplicity and lack of distractions of such a work flow. They don't mention the lack of features, and the pitfalls.
As a result a lot of the newbie questions on stackoverflow and here are "Why dozn't M-return work with me Emacs?" and "How comez when I can't cut'n'paste from Emacs?".
This is frustratingly detrimental to Emacs adoption because the new user's initial experience with Emacs is "fixing" it.