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I think a lot of us have moved from Atom/Sublime over to VS Code these days. Seems like lots more momentum and gobs of useful plugins that let me do my work.
I guess this is the IDE crowd? Us vim guys are still raising eyebrows when people say "best free option" :)
I've been a vim user for a long time. I switched to Atom despite its slowness because I finally get linter and autocomplete integrations that just work. Those have always been a pain to set up for me in vim, and when you are switching between machines all the time, that quickly becomes tiring.
I don't see a reason to stick with traditional vim for the majority of my work, since most other editors have plugins with a very good coverage of the core vim features/keybindings.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and multicurors. I just remembered that they were also a big part of reason for switching. At least at the time, every implementation of multicursors in vim was broken in a very major way for me.