Yup, that's also why I decided to get good in vim.
I was pretty happy in TextMate at the time, but the popularity tide had turned as he was working on TextMate2. The writing appeared to be on the wall, so I learnt vim properly. Sublime took over, then came Atom, now VSCode. Neovim is home for me now, and that's been a whole other beast to configure, but vim has just been such a stable, efficient environment for me for almost 15 years now.
I was pretty happy in TextMate at the time, but the popularity tide had turned as he was working on TextMate2. The writing appeared to be on the wall, so I learnt vim properly. Sublime took over, then came Atom, now VSCode. Neovim is home for me now, and that's been a whole other beast to configure, but vim has just been such a stable, efficient environment for me for almost 15 years now.