Jason Snell, longtime lead editor for Macworld, has a new site, Six Colors, covering all things Apple. This weekend, Jason was in Montreal for, sadly, the very last Cingleton conference. Rich Siegel, founder of Bare Bones Software, gave a talk about not selling future versions of BBEdit via the Mac App Store.

Siegel crafted his presentation as a list of reasons that weren’t the reason Bare Bones was abandoning the Mac App Store. It wasn’t Apple’s 30 percent cut, he said, because while that’s a lot of money, developers get a lot of service from Apple in return. It wasn’t the complete severing of his relationship with his customers, even though it’s frustrating that only Apple really knows who is buying the software and it doesn’t share that data. Nor were it the marketing challenges, the difficulty conforming to Apple’s submissions guidelines (including sandboxing and forcing some features in to add-on downloads), or the numerous problems involving the development tool chain—including the one time that a BBEdit update silently crashed the App Store’s submission tool.

Bottom line, it wasn’t any of those things, it was all of them. Is BBEdit leaving the Mac App Store a canary in the coal mine?