STfag vs Vimfag

>New STFag: "Bah, Vim's too hard! I'm gonna use Sublime Text; it allows me to start without learning a million keystrokes!"
>New VimFag "You're right, other new guy, this is my first day with Vim and it sure is different from anything I've used so far."
>New STFag: "Hahaha, that's what you get for using software for autists!"

3 months later, the Vimfag learned how to extend and customize his editor.
3 months later, the Sublimefag still has to press ^D for every occurance of a term he wants to refactor.
the Vimfag wrapped this in a function, put in his Vimrc and bound it to <leader>rf.
The Vimfag also learned how to use autocommands which strip whitespace, correct indentation and spell check whenever files that need it are saved.
The Vimfag also personalized his code and snippet plugins reducing the amount of typing he has to do even further. Generate code, don't write it!
The Vimfag does not need to use the mouse and can concentrate on ripping apart and reshaping text with only a few keystrokes while the sublime
fag jerks to the engineered, badly scaling example animations on the ST website.

I wonder how it will be 3 months later.
Or a year.
Or two.

Maybe STFag will have caught up to VimFag by then, provided the 'author' of ST plagiarized some more.
After all, ST2 already is an utterly weak Vim with python cruft stacked on top of it and slathered in Textmate sauce.
Even lifted the monokai theme right off TM and uses it as it's default. Also, 'vintage mode'.
Why would such a futuristic, awesome editor like ST have such outdated things? Why the effort to include it?
Because people would be asking for it. Because Vim bindings can be found almost everywhere, editors, IDEs, file managers, browsers, music players,
PDF readers even games. Vim is everywhere because it's the best.
Why settle for a weak simulacrum when the pool of magic is free to drink from? Don't marginalize your human ability to adapt to something unique only to miss out on power. Use vim.

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But ST has a nicer interface!
Its file browser is graphical and not ncurses based, all those awesome widgets, Vim doesn't have those!
Fair point, if it weren't for Jon Skinner, the author of ST to actually see those things as distractions.

Yes, distractions, hence `distraction free mode' which removes everything but the text buffers. Even your slave driver himself fucks you in the ass when you want to argue `good' things about ST.
It's not `Fullscreen Mode' it's `Distraction Free' mode, because these things are, indeed, distractions.
Hiding them, in order to be less distracted, will make look even MORE idiotic for using ST instead of Vim, though, since ST will look more and more like Vim the more `focused' you make it appear, yet won't have the powerful toolset to deal with files and buffers without having 100 panes open like Vim does.

Bottom line:
If you use Sublime Text then you have been scammed and punked. Feel free to deny or rationalize it, but it can't hold a candle to Vim, or Emacs for that matter.
You (should have to) pay 70 dollars for fancy distractions, copied plugins in a language with shitty self compatibility and buzzword features that using Vim for a week will reveal as utter shit, but at least ST gives you a quicker start whereas Vim needs to be learned, with the payoff of leaving all other text editors in the dust after a few weeks.
If you are serious about text editing then go for Vim. It'll be there for you forever, on pretty much all platforms, both GUI and CLi, forever.

Or disregard all of this and continue to use it, but I'll be back and you'll be forever damned to tune this out, filter it, ignore it, because it's the unassailable truth and in depth research about how both editors achieve things by using all resources available will always make Vim stand out as the winner. Nine times out of eight, or ten, in case you love JS linters, cause STs is quite good, until I find one for Vim to rub into your face.