I don't think that's fair. As others have said, ST2 is a great editor and will be for a while.
I'm probably an aberration, but I don't customize my text editors beyond the basics, and I definitely don't write plugins for them. It would probably make me a better developer, but I'm just not motivated to do that.
You didn't mention what you do recommend to peers?
You're not an aberration; defaults are defaults for a reason. Perhaps around this community it's more common to stray from the vanilla editor but in most cases people will adapt to whatever's given straight to them.
In the case of ST2, it was pretty damn solid out of the box. There's tremendous power in the customization, but it's in no way required.
I'm probably an aberration, but I don't customize my text editors beyond the basics, and I definitely don't write plugins for them. It would probably make me a better developer, but I'm just not motivated to do that.
You didn't mention what you do recommend to peers?