I finally made an account just to say: I also bought Sublime Text, and I'm happy to do so. I'll pay for it again when my license runs up, most likely.

Lots of people saying they use VSCode, and I can't blame them. It has a lot going for it. But when I recently tried each for a while, Sublime does everything VSCode does just as well. Even plugins - there's nothing I want (with one exception) I can't get in Sublime. So the calculus basically comes down to this:

VSCode: the remoting feature is great, and Sublime currently can't match it (rsub is a poor substitute at best).

Sublime: it's not an Electron app, and therefore uses a fraction of the resources. Working with the same set of files open, VSCode uses hundreds of MB of memory while Sublime uses 100 or so.

So either way I have to give something up, but ultimately the massive bloat of VSCode bothers me more than the lack of good remoting functionality in Sublime. So I'm using Sublime for the foreseeable future.