Is it completely removed from Sublime Text?
I love merge, but the simplest controls like stage/unstage/commit/indicate file status seem kind of essential.
Having said that, Merge is far and away the best git UI I've used. It has saved my bacon a few times. I'm not terrible with git in the terminal (I use it there 98% of the time), but sometimes... I really don't want to be doing things without a decent visual representation of the mess and chaos, and intuitive access to the tools available. I get why they wanted to create Merge.
Of course not. I was just describing 2 different levels of coolness.