I changed my mind and just bought a license. Bringing multi-cursor editing into the world is easily worth $70 (I think Sublime was the first?). And it's not just Sublime Users that benefited from this.

I just exported a text file that looked like this:

  Col1 title|Col2 title|Col3 title|...
  1||asdf|...
With multi-cursor editing it almost trivial to transform it into this:

  Col1 title: 1
  Col2 title: 
  Col3 title: asdf
  ...
That may be possible in VIM using macros, but would require way more fiddling.