Personally, I prefer using Sublime. It is:
I installed a package for elixir support and that is really helping me to become comfortable while coding in elixir.
I tried:
Atom (heavy and fonts looks bad),
VisualCode (Heavy and shortcuts has a learning curve)
Vim (Cool and light but requires a lot of plugins to become fast to use)
I think when people say vim is “easier” they are referring to the configuration, for instance I have used vim for 8 years and emacs for 1 year and my vim configuration is about 200 lines less…Although it is more enjoyable to configure emacs, but that is my opinion.
Atom has become fairly lightweight the past year, but still, if you don’t like the font, change it, I use Source Code Pro as my font for example. ^.^
The down side of this is that sometimes new tools are better. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here. If a new language can be better, then it’s just as likely a new tool can be better.
Personally, I have found “multi-mode” editing to be a game changer. Now you can do that in Emacs and Vim, but you have to know that is even possible.
Likely everything “90% of the new stuff is crap”, but you have to stay open to the possibility that sometimes it isn’t.
Oh, as to what I use, a lot depends on what I’m doing and how much time I’m reading code vs writing it. I switch between emacs in a terminal, Atom and Sublime Text mostly these days. I’m fluent enough in vi to use it in a pinch although I’ve always despised it’s modes.
On my i7 machine it works fast, but in my previous one (i3) I used to spend a few minutes the editor to load for complete. I have tested same font on atom and sublime and seems not the same. anyway that is just my personal opinion. this thread is not about the best editor. i think is just to mention our experience with each editor we have used. sometimes i use vim when my hand is tired to use mouse. 
But you don’t do serious code editing on the server, do you? And for simple edition you need to know what i does, along with :q and :w And that’s all
Beside, if anyone is giving you access to fresh instalation of os on server, then probably you are not mere “software developer” but also a “dev ops” guy, and if so, not knowing how to make simple edit of a text file is least of your problems 
