> Frequent high-quality updates

I don't really need any updates from sublime. It does everything I need it to, and I've never felt a lack of a feature. I'm looking at the new and highly touted "hot exit" feature, and I'm thinking "but sublime prompts you to save when closing the app, and honestly I haven't lost work due to forgetting to save in several years."

> lots of communication

Again, I'm not sure why I'd want communication from the creators of sublime.

> great plugin ecosystem

Any plugin I've wanted (linters, syntax files, git integration...) has been installable from a dropdown menu in sublime. Maybe if my plugin needs were more esoteric, I'd appreciate vscode more?

> open source

I dig that, philosophically. Although if that was a priority for me, I'd go with Atom, instead of something published by microsoft.

Again, I'm open to the idea that vscode could be better than sublime - but maybe it's only better to people who need more obscure plugins, or who really care about open source?

> Frequent high-quality updates, lots of communication

Genuine question: does this really make a difference in your day to day usage? I feel like once I've learnt the ~20% of features that are useful to me on a regular basis everything on top is marginal gains. Im really not that bothered by loads of new features.

This. The frequent updates for vscode. I used both Sublime and vscode for a while. I switched to vscode overnight when it got hot exit support.