Same here. My reaction to JetBrains doing that was dismay at first. But I've come to appreciate speed of updates, although the last update of IDEA completely broke the Vim Emulator for me, so I've switched back to ST.
I think he should at least put a demo time limit on using Sublime Unregistered. It's established enough now, and the extra revenue could help speed up development. There are a few things that Atom does in a nicer way, like package management.
But Atom doesn't feel nice because of the speed issues, for me.
Re:Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
by EasyTiger_ on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:51AM
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Doesn't the developer basically abandon it for years at a time?
Looking back a few years at the dev log, it looks like it was one big update per year, then for 2016 we've seen an update every 2-3 months. So who knows anymore? I'm inclined to think these semi-rapid updates are to bring 3.0 out of beta, so I'm not so sure we should expect the same "speed" for too long.
I would prefer to acknowledge on-going development costs and pay those for a continually-developed, high-quality editor.