I think not necessarily in better place. The idea of 1000s of Javascript/electron developers hacking on a text editor, does not seem very useful to me. Atom/VScode already exists and extremely popular and rapidly released.

Some editors which are released slowly and liked by few is ok. I am using Sublime 3 in beta for very long time. Sometimes it gives popup to upgrade which I do then. Else it is fine, doing the job at hand without latest and greatest feature which I am not using.

I love sublime text and bought the ST3 license a couple years ago. For the last couple of months I've been holding off using VSCode as I felt the same way that it was an unfair comparison between the work of one or few developers vs a big team at Microsoft. But just last week I finally caved in and started using VSCode on a regular basis and I seem to like it a lot more than ST3 despite the issues about large files. I am just worried though if more people switch over and ST development stops because of funding and if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? At least VSCode is on GitHub so the community might take over but I feel bad for indie developers who have to compete with large teams from big companies that have no direct revenue from the product.