Actually, I love vim, because vim is on each server and can be used without any extra effort, so vim is out of competition here. But I love smooth fonts, scrolling, and appearance of Sublime Text, so I made it my primary editor.
https://github.com/zk-phi/sublimity might be useful to you, too.
Especially on embedded devices there is often no real competition to vi.
60% of the time, it works every time, eh? :-)
I use vi too, but less now than I used too. It's definitely a powerful little editor.
[1] https://github.com/apinstein/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L162...