I think a lot of it was just young, trendy counterculture that followed the shift in tech demographics in the last few decades. Sublime Text was hot and it was

I think a lot of it was just young, trendy counterculture that followed the shift in tech demographics in the last few decades. Sublime Text was hot and it was dark. Another thing that helped it along was the fact that when your eyes adjust to a dark mode app, context switching to a "light mode" app is painful on the eyes. So people reinforced the idea that "light mode" hurts, rather than that switching hurts.