Emacs is awesome, and I totally love it. I've used it for more than 20 years. But, it's too complicated even for most programmers, and it's way too complicated for the majority of non-programmers. I can't handle maintaining my .emacs file anymore, and for me sublime is easier to use, even if it is less "powerful".

As much as I still love emacs, it's not a reason to be discouraged. I might even suggest it's a reason to be encouraged. I would absolutely love to see something that actually competes with emacs on functionality and generality, while also being modern and usable, and without having to be a programmer.

I know! But I'm not interested in money, and it seems possible to provide something much easier to use then emacs, which, although inferior, can still help people who can't invest the time in learning to use emacs. (There's actually a sociologist, Kieran Healy, who's devoted lots of time to carefully explaining his emacs-centred workflow, with almost no uptake. There's just an enormous class of people who use Word -- horrendously inappropriate for this class of work -- when it's easier to make something much better, though still a long way off emacs.