[terminalbraid]

> The spokesperson added that the company could have done better

They seem to have to say that a lot about this product, yet they don't really seem to learn any lessons. When the original flood of bad reviews came it it was because they made that plugin bundled with the IDE and then had a "bug" where it couldn't be effectively removed. There was no precedent for bundled a paid plugin nor need for it to be bundled with the IDE. Just their desperation to cash in. They then walked that back with the same "we could have done better".

This is more of the same. The "AI Assistant" still lives on the default side bar regardless if you have that plugin installed or not.

At this point, they know they could do better yet are choosing not to.

[andrekandre]

  > There was no precedent for bundled a paid plugin nor need for it to be bundled with the IDE. Just their desperation to cash in.

this is so disappointing from jetbrains... it seems recently their actions are less and less user/customer friendly...

[pjmlp]

For me that started with Kotlin.

Not only are they quite open it is a means to cash in more InteliJ licenses, the community has generally an anti-Java sentiment, especially on Android, as if it doesn't depend on the ecosystem for its own existence.

The language might have a great design, however for me that is off-putting and makes me rather play with other JVM languages, like Clojure.

"The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. We’re working on a new language, but we do not plan to replace the entire ecosystem of libraries that have been built for the JVM. So you’re likely to keep using Spring and Hibernate, or other similar frameworks, in your projects built with Kotlin. And while the development tools for Kotlin itself are going to be free and open-source, the support for the enterprise development frameworks and tools will remain part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the commercial version of the IDE. And of course the framework support will be fully integrated with Kotlin."

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...

[andrekandre]

  > The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. 

wow, i literally had no idea about that... thanks for the info (T_T)

[mystified5016]

The only way to actually uninstall it is to manually rip out the files from your installation. It's nuts.