It seems to have been a victim of its own success. In the run up to the final ST2 release, we saw a string of new releases showing often subtle but useful improvements (and breaking a couple of things irritatingly as well). After the ST2 release, that stream of improvements just seemed to dry up, and now it turns out a paid upgrade model is being used. I don't mind that for new features, but for obvious bugs, in a premium product (which any text editor that costs real money is, given the competition), that got-your-money-now attitude does grate. This remains true even if the amount of money itself is small and it was an easy decision to buy it in the first place (and would be for the upgrade, if I had any confidence it wouldn't go the same way, which I no longer do).