[dist-epoch]

Sublime Text fell because VS Code was just better, not because it was closed source. I switched from Sublime Text to VS Code, and didn't care one bit how open or close either was.

Not saying there aren't people who care, there are, but they are a small minority.

[pjmlp]

More like many devs are cheap and paying for Sublime is too much to ask for.

[scottyah]

VS Code only got better because it was open source though, the community contributed so much. Sublime Text was vastly superior in the beginning in pretty much every way.