[PreInternet01]

That seems like a minor bug at most? And if the plugin remains enabled, but doesn't do anything, what's the actual issue here?

Rephrased: what's the problem with waiting until the next point release of the affected product before assuming malicious intent?

[mystiick]

A plugin that reinstalls itself to ask for money is malicious intent

[PreInternet01]

Counterpoint: if you click once (per product install) to dismiss the "ask for money", then don't touch anything related to the plugin again, you won't hear from it thereafter.

Are we really equating poorly-coded add-ons to malware now? And again, I ask this as someone who lived through the whole broken experience of AI previews in JetBrains products and ignoring all of that. That literally took me less time than typing this comment...

[insanitybit]

You're saying "a thing that happens is intent" it's literally nonsensical.

[ilc]

Because the whole way they've handled this situation reeks.

Oh, we'll get you on a wait list. Bullshit. Waitlist never came in.

It's OK to say the waitlist closed. Keeping people hopeful is a shitty move.

Then to pull this on launch... (sigh) I didn't want to have to waste time on this shit. I'll go back to VSCode, neovim or whatever if I must.

I'm more frustrated with myself that I trusted them to provide me a year+ of quality service... and that isn't happening.

[PreInternet01]

Believe it or not, but I lived through the whole broken experience of AI previews in JetBrains products by... just ignoring the whole thing.

Sure, I got "sign up now!!!" buttons that did nothing for me. I learned after, like, the first 3 times of clicking these not to do that again.

Then, I was, at some point, able to sign up for the preview. It was underwhelming. Like most other offerings in this space.

Meanwhile, all the core IDE functionality continued working as before... And all was good...