What do you use instead?

Personally I've found that VSCode has great out-of-the-box functionality for front-end/JS development, in comparison to Atom and SublimeText.

That's interesting, because it's the reason I do use vscode. I just want to work and it takes a whole of 5 minutes to setup and get going, on basically any OS I want. It can't be light weight and also include every feature everyone wants.

Use emacs or vim. They work right out of the box.