Same here. I switched from Emacs to Sublime, but moved back a couple of months ago. I used my Sublime setup as inspiration for making Emacs as pretty, and now love it even more than I did before.
I agree with you a hundred percent. I paid for ST2, and waited for ST3 to get out of beta for ages. After seeing the project halt for a year I made the jump to Emacs. And I can't be happier, I'm able to use the same editor in three different platforms and use the same init.el for all of them. Also I'm able to edit files in a remote server without having to replicate the files locally as ST does.
>I paid for ST2, and waited for ST3 to get out of beta for ages.
I, on the other hand paid for ST2, and have been using ST3 since the first dev builds. Never had any problem, except some small glitch which was fixed in an update 1 or 2 days ago.
UPDATE: On OS X (always with latest stable OS X release), and using SublimeLinter (Python, PHP, JS), GoSublime, Vintageous, a plugin that shows repo changes next to line numbers, and several other plugs. YMMV in other platforms / plugins.
Obviously, some folks prefer Sublime. But I'd be a lot more interested if it was open source.