I pay for both BBEdit and Sublime, and typically have both of them open, so it isn't the price that persuades me to use VS Code. It's that it is better for cert

I pay for both BBEdit and Sublime, and typically have both of them open, so it isn't the price that persuades me to use VS Code. It's that it is better for certain specific tasks. The one that springs to mind is working with Angular projects written in TypeScript. For those projects, it handles autocomplete, and as-you-edit code linting, better than the other two (or basically any other editor). As for Slack, I'm not really a fan, but I use their app because its easier to find with its own application layer compared to being one of a hundred browser tabs I might have open in my various web browsers. (That's the same reason I use Epichrome to make dedicated Chrome-based browser apps for GitHub, CircleCI, JIRA, and some other tools... macOS gives you a slew of useful tools for dealing with things at the application level. You can absolutely do all the same stuff in a browser, but it's not as convenient when it is intermingled with all the other stuff going on in your web browsers.)