I've used Sublime Text; it's not a bad editor; but compared to using Vim, it’s like being in quicksand.
Sublime Text should be more modern and useful than Vim, an editor with roots going back to the 1970's. As the article describes:
>Vi is fundamentally built on command composability. It favors small, general-purpose commands that can be combined with objects to compose larger commands. By contrast, Emacs and its philosophical descendants (including Sublime Text and Atom) use monolithic, special-purpose commands.
You can't add enough special purpose commands to something like Sublime Text and have it be useable to approach what one can do with Vi/Vim and its composability.
Finally, Vim 8.0 was released just last year (2016), so it's not like it's not being updated with new features.
Last thing from the aforementioned article:
>A new, shiny, modern editor could one-up Vim by fixing some (or hopefully all) of these issues. But before an editor can replace Vim, it needs to learn everything that 1976 has to teach — not just the lesson of Emacs, but also the lesson of vi.
If you think lowest-common denominator stuff like Notepad equals productivity because it's easy and "discoverable", then I got nothing for you.
There's a reason why the subtitle of Drew Neil's book is "Edit Text at the Speed of Thought": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic-Progr...
Because when you're reasonably proficient with Vim, you think of what to do and with a few keystrokes, you've done it without the interruption of reaching for a mouse, selecting a menu command, etc. For many edits, in the time it takes to grab a mouse, orient where the pointer is on the screen and begin the process of selecting a GUI command, etc., you'd already be done using Vim and you're off to the next thing you want to do. Anyone who's been in the flow of coding doesn't want something that interrupts that and Vim is great at keeping you there.
And because Vim uses a language, it's composable in way that VS Code, Notepad, Emacs and all of the rest of editors aren't. Once you understand how to delete a word (`dw` in Normal mode), you also know how to delete sentences, paragraphs, etc. Plugins can add their own text objects to extend the usefulness of the language.
More at "Why Vim Can't Replace Emacs/Sublime Text, etc.": https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-43385...
Forget about vim and emacs, those were for times when people were coding over SSH. Apparently you're not a systems admin, web developer or in devops, where people have to connect to servers via SSH and edit configuration files, scripts, etc. pretty much every day.
The beauty is you can use Vim on your desktop or laptop for local editing tasks (especially gVim) and for remote editing via SSH, FTP, rsync.
Finally, I've used over a dozen different editors over the years on macOS and other platforms; I decided I wanted one editor that had enough headroom that I couldn't outgrow regardless of the task at hand.
Even though I've been using Vim for 4 or 5 years as my primary editor, I've barely scratched the surface of what it enables me to do.