[technobabbler]

FWIW if you're buying it with your own money, the individual subscriptions are much cheaper. They start at $150 or so for Ultimate, I think, and less than that for individual products. Then they get cheaper every year after that (loyalty discount), and you also get an offline key to use with the last version you subbed to even after your sub ends. All in all it's a very fair pricing model.

After 3 or 4 years, my annual resub for Phpstorm was like $60/yr. Upgrading to ultimate was like $30 more. Well worth the price.

I've tried vscode several times, once every few years. It's getting closer for sure but for now still requires a bunch of extensions and tweaking to approximate the feature set of IntelliJ.