My organization largely comprises C programmers who use Emacs for
programming, as a means to an end rather than an end in itself. Our two
sites centrally provision their own Emacs configurations to all users,
which incorporates a large corpus of code for editing and analyzing C
programs in accord with local practice. Naturally, the existence of
this corpus demands that programmers be charged with its upkeep, and as
no position is set aside for such work, this responsibility devolves on
individuals almost at random. This is a representative microcosm of the
wider Emacs userbase, I think: for most are not hobbyists, or even
employed programmers for whom programming is also an avocation, but men
working for salaries, with bills to pay and families to... you can
complete the rest of this trite description. And it is they whom I
canvassed.