Having written quite a bit of text using both word processors and just plain text editors, I can see the value of this. When your creatively writing or drawing

Having written quite a bit of text using both word processors and just plain text editors, I can see the value of this. When your creatively writing or drawing its critical that your tools stay out of the way. Good writing and drawing programs do this, poor ones bog you down in administrivia, formatting, correcting, and the like. This does mean things like having control, and many word processors these days dont allow the control needed. I also see this trend in many programs these days where the program seems to think that it has a better idea of how you want something done than you. When you get into a fight with one of these programs it can really burn up the idea you had in your head and then your stuck trying to find it again. So, yeah, artists and writers sometimes use older things because they are better in that way.