Having to think about how things work

It occurred to me while I was once again working through issues with having Emacs run smoothly on both my Macs that there are too many things that I have to think about, just to do my thing every day. This isn't only an issue with Emacs, but that's the big one. Sync, packages, Doom issues, configuration options, etc. The place where I take notes should not come with that kind of overhead, is what I'm thinking.