> (...) I know some people like the light speed of Sublime, but to me there's a certain threshold where it's just fast enough. (...)

I feel the same way too. I was a Sublime Text fan/user for a few years until did the change to Atom and finally settle down on VSC two years ago. VSC is fast enough for me. Also, LSP seems interesting, ripgrep-backed search, official support for Python (as an extension) and so on.

EDIT: formatting