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That will make you proficient on Emacs, which is a requirement in the long term. But the more experient you become at it, the more you will see its shortcomings and become desiluded with it. I hope text editor extensions, packages, would be written in a way that we could use them despite editor, something akin to LSP, ....
Well, keep in mind that Emacs Lisp was introduced when Common Lisp was not standardized, in terms of design it is the oldest Lisp in use, it is closer to MIT's MacLisp than its successors: CL and Scheme.
Yes, ELisp pretty much only works within the Emacs ecosystem, but one of the advantages of the Lisp dialects is that they have more similarities to each other than differences, especially in syntax and the functional paradigm. ELisp will give you minimal bases that you can take to move to more popular dialects with job opportunities: Clojure and CL.