Embark is a fantastic and thoughtfully designed package for Emacs that flips Emacs’ action → object ordering without adding a learning curve. It’s completely changed how I use Emacs, and I’m going to show you why.
By default, Emacs’ action model is to specify the action (find-file), then the object (the file):
This mirrors how one does things in a shell:  The difference is that before you submit your shell command, you’re free to edit both the action and the object, since it’s just a line of text.