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Salted hashes have been irrelevant for at least 5 years, possibly more. It was a big deal in 1995-2004, back when "Rainbow Tables" were a thing. It just doesn't matter any more, and hasn't for a long time. Don't be misled by the fact that bcrypt/pbkdf2/scrypt both use hashes, and have salts on the front - that's just a property of them, not their primary essence.
So what is their primary essence?
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As the other posters have remarked, Brent's sync diary provides some of the concrete technical reasons why we rolled our own. Big picture, though, we consider sync so essential to Vesper's long-term success that we wanted to control it. Dropbox is fantastic. We all rely on it personally. But we don't want Vesper to rely on it. I'm sure everyone here on Hacker News has a Dropbox account, and I'll bet most Daring Fireb…
In other words, you agree that iCloud's attempt at vendor lock-in is bad for developers and consumers alike.