[makeitdouble]

Is this a JetBrains commercial account ? Am I at fault for not liking their product that much, and thus not paying them their apparently deserved yearly subscription ?

This feels pretty weird to be faulted for using other companies' products. And no, switching to Jetbrains' doesn't make me more money. Could be the reverse from my past trials.

[philliphaydon]

It's not about liking or not liking a product. You're complaining about pay for a product. If you like a product and its helpful why are you against paying for it?

[makeitdouble]

> If you feel a tool as as much downsides than upsides in your workflow, you don't use it, whatever its price is.

↑ that was in my answer (with the typo, on the “as as” instead of “has as”, my bad)

You might be confounding mine with another comment. I recognize the talent and expertise of JetBrain’s staff, but don’t like their products in general, and use VSCode as a primary editor, and (paid) Textmate for the rest.

To your general point, looking at project like Bitwarden, with their initial kickstarter and their current revenue, I don’t feel like people are restraining from paying for useful software, even when it has a generous free tier.