I was under the impression that the "forced" upgrade to Sublime 4 caught quite a few out, and may have been a nail in the coffin.
I'm still rocking SLT 3, and it's my go-to for large file handling or just as a simple scratchpad, but development (of SLT) feels like it moves at a snails pace.
> This is how it's always been I think; their model.
I don't think ST needs to move fast. It's a good quality editor. It doesn't need a bunch of new features every couple of months. Just getting a major update once a year is fine imo.
Sublime has ongoing development on https://www.sublimetext.com/dev and the last major release (4) was just about a year ago.