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I made a concerted effort not to use evil or try to ape all the Doom keybindings like I did with my previous attempt.
Fast forward to today; the result is this.
Home row mods are fantastic. jtroo has made a fantastic little program that make this achievable (almost, MAC wip) fully cross-platform, allowing you to turn your regular keyboard into a programmable keyboard. It's amazing how much faster and easier it is to type even some of the craziest of key-chords now.
I started out using evil, but now I mostly use Symex. (Structural editing. non-lisps support wip for those sad moments you can't use lisp). For now depends on evil, but could be separated.
Meow has example layouts for both Dvorak and Colemak as well.
It may also be worth taking a look at outli which provides org-mode-like navigation and structure editing via your comments.
That said, I found that setting up evil wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. If you want to see how simple it can be, you can take a look at the pull request I linked in the original post. I can also recommend taking a look at this config for another example of how setting it up can actually be very simple: https://github.com/ianyepan/yay-evil-emacs