I gave Sublime Text a shot (20 years emacs), but ran into the same thing that has kept me from using emacs x11 for more than a few weeks at a time, which is that I spend maybe 30% of my time editing files on remote machines, connected over ssh, often through complicated tunneling arrangements that make using Tramp a pain to use.

I keep thinking that what I really need is to switch all the machines I use to Plan9 to abstract away the remote sessions, I guess then I'd have to learn Acme :)

I've had trouble using Emacs to edit remotely via SSH/tramp, but the following ~/.ssh/config settings helped me a lot:

  # stop ssh connections from freezing
  KeepAlive yes
  ServerAliveCountMax 10
  ServerAliveInterval 10
  
  # Lets you bounce through an arbitrary number of hosts.
  # ex: ssh 1sthost/2ndhost/3rdhost
  Host */*
  ProxyCommand ssh $(dirname %h) nc -w1 $(basename %h) %p