As a recent convert to ST2 from eclipse, I agree with his choice. Also, recently having to use windows at a client site, a portable version of ST2 has been very comfortable.
The reason Emacs users come out is simple: there is an absurd amount of anti-Emacs FUD spread by non-Emacs users which can scare reasonable people away from using it. If nobody disagreed with it, it would seem true. More perniciously, people would start assuming that it was the case without questioning that assumption.
I have enough work to do already. Customizing the editor to look like that has got to be somebody else's job.
Well if people would casting aspersions about tools they don't understand or use.
It's like a bricklayer criticizing the utility of Category Theory.
Except with programmers, it keeps happening, so the defenders of the faith keep popping up out of necessity.
Compare/contrast what you know, don't include things you don't use or understand for the sake of comprehensiveness.