Sublime Text 2 is kind of the spiritual successor to TextMate.

And Sublime Text 3 the successor of Sublime Text 2.

And $70 is a successor of 50

I could imagine you have more expensive tools at home that you use less often than a text editor.

Perhaps, but none of them had free alternatives that are equally capable.

s/equally/more/

Successor? It's the same program!

Given that Sublime Text does not look like a Mac app, and that TextMate was a Mac only app that looked very much like a Mac app, I find it to not be 'spiritual successor' in any shape or form. Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform application. Having said that, Sublime Text has borrowed some good ideas from TextMate, but many editors do that these days.

I totally agree here. Sublime is just an rebound. People will move on. I think they should converge to Old Editors like Vim/Emacs because Editors like these don't die, they never have. They keep coming back, like a Zombie (Not the best example I could come up with).

But being on Emacs gave me an advantage of persistence. In past I have changed companies, development machines, operating systems and programming languages but never editor. It was always there, available.

s/Zombie/Phoenix/