I assumed this was a blog post from the author of Sublime Text until I opened it.

This is the most entitled article I've read for a very long time.

It also asserts with no evidence that VSCode is popular because "it is open source" rather than the more obvious, "It has the backing of Microsoft".

There are thousands of less popular open source editors out there. And yet Sublime is one of the few pieces of software I've actually paid for (admittedly not since ST2).