I have almost nothing to complaint about ST, I've been using the version 3 regularly for a few months. Off course, I want new features (and a few bugfixes, damn you single quotes bug), but I'm pretty happy.
Really? I guess you never spent time outside of Windows-user circles. Understandable, since they're the majority. But I've been whining and have heard others groan about Windows-exclusivity precisely since I was introduced to Linux.
Unless you're using Mac. There are very good editor/IDE that run on a single platform.
I get your point, you don't have to be multiplatform, but your two examples aren't good ones.
Perhaps you are 1-2 years behind in the news. What you refer was based on the FPCX release back in the day. Since then it added the missing features (multicam, library management and tons of other stuff), and has regained market share. Actually it has been one of the top sellers for Apple. Professional editors that bashed it, have changed their tune -- you can find several articles and posts to that effect.
The whole backslash were because FCP7 was discontinued and initial FCPX didn't have 100% parity. Plus, editors didn't know how development works (can't blame them), so couldn't understand that a newly developed engine, re-designed to be future-proof, will have dropped features and might lunch without 100% parity.
>and OmniFocus is a toy piece of software... there are probably more users of Atom.io than Omnifocus ;)
You seem to have a very bizarro notion of what's a "toy piece of software".
Actually Atom.io is as fringe as it gets. Most people have checked it out of curiosity and returned to their editors.
Omnifocus, OTOH, has been featured on the Mac Store, and has been on the top list of best selling apps.
What's not to love?
It seems to be slower than ST, but I didn't use it enough to see if it really is slower than ST in a all day work.
I read somewhere that there is a beta release now, I'll upgrade and give it a try again.