I don't think popularity is a very good reason to use a specific editor. Editors are a very personal thing and should make sense for your workflow. Whether people like it or love it shouldn't matter, it should be about you anyways.
It isn't something to directly factor in. People will not use an editor which doesn't have good plugins so its more the other way around. It has more to do with how invested the developers working on the editor are.
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I don't think popularity is a very good reason to use a specific editor. Editors are a very personal thing and should make sense for your workflow. Whether people like it or love it shouldn't matter, it should be about you anyways.
I'm not sure where the threshold would be, but at some level you need some popularity to ensure the best tools get written for the editor.
It isn't something to directly factor in. People will not use an editor which doesn't have good plugins so its more the other way around. It has more to do with how invested the developers working on the editor are.