May I recommend declaring bankruptcy from time to time

Configuration bankruptcy is someting of a meme in the Emacs community, to the point where there is a dedicated wiki page describing the phenomenon. As a fully-programmable text editor, Emacs configuration tends toward spaghetti over time, at least for many users (including myself). And for many of us, the only remedy for an unintelligible, slow, and tangled Emacs configuration is wiping the whole file and starting again. I admit that I can be a perfectionist in some things. I also, for some reason, enjoy co