Sublime Text definitely had it's moment in the spotlight, at one point (around 2012-2014) it was basically the only editor I saw people using, besides emacs/vim which has its diehard fans (including myself).

Most of those people are using Visual Studio Code today instead, although in comparison, VS Code is very bloated and slow.

For fun and giggles, here is a comparison of the Google popularity between Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, TextMate, Vim and Emacs: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

And here I am still using TextMate...

(95% of my coding is in Xcode, the rest gets funneled through TextMate).

I also like emacs, Vim and NeoVim a lot… I guess I probably prefer them over Sublime Text. I like the fact that Sublime Text is performant, written in C++, and the product of the work of a guy, not a corporation. I’m happy to pay for stuff I like. It’s a pity that it’s closed-source, though…