For my part, I used Vim for maybe a decade before switching to SublimeText 2 approx. four to six months ago. It was pretty close to impossible for me to get all

For my part, I used Vim for maybe a decade before switching to SublimeText 2 approx. four to six months ago. It was pretty close to impossible for me to get all the plugins and functionality I wanted set up correctly in Vim. Conversely ST2 ships with everything I want and with approximately zero config, so I jumped on it. I don't have much intention of going back, but it's still useful to have an editor I can run in a terminal, so I installed UVD. We'll see how it goes, but I like the idea of a curated setup where I just drop in my custom crap from my old vimrc and call it good. That said, I agree with the larger point that it's hard to see whether it will take off. But if it's easy for them to maintain it and they're scratching their own itch, it seems like a net win.