That's definitely a fair point. I just like to point it out to people, since it's flying under the radar quite often. I think it has a lot of the right ideas about what text editing should look like, and there are plans for some really exciting stuff in further develpment (like a client/server architecture and a language agnostic rpc interface).
Hey if I may suggest a different editor to you then: https://github.com/martanne/vis
It is vi like and combines modal editing with a cool regex command language (based on sam) and multiple selections. I've been using it as my daily driver for about two years now and it's been just great so far.