[estimator7292]

JetBrains is going to run themselves out of business. It's like they forgot that all their money comes from the people who have been paying them for years for software that is vital to their work and livelihood. It seems they're intentionally dumping all their old customers to focus the full might of their organization.... chasing fads.

They spent millions of dollars reworking their IDEs to look like a cheap VSCode knockoff and have become obsessed with chasing new, hip users who aren't going to pay what the old timers were because their IDEs are free now.

I genuinely cannot fathom how anyone thinks that this current obsession is a good idea. They had their corner of the market absolutely nailed down and secure. If they'd just kept on quietly making the best IDEs available while everyone else in the industry has lost their damn minds, they'd be golden. A large majority of their users simply wanted a good IDE with an easy to understand UI that just keeps working the same way it's always worked and doesn't randomly change shit and force you to stop working to figure out the new software.

JetBrains absolutely cornered the market for power users, and now they want to piss it all away. Not even for a semi-reasonable profit motive, they're just chasing fads becuase... because everyone else is, I guess.

I canceled my subscription a while ago, and I'll keep using the last version to have a sensible UI until something better comes along.

[gbear605]

For what it’s worth, I’ve been using IntelliJ for about a decade now, and I thought the UI change was great. Obviously not for everyone, but I’m more productive now thanks to it.

I don’t like their recent AI features, in large part because my company only allows OpenAI, but everything else that they’re doing is great.

[lifestyleguru]

For at least a decade now every UI redesign has been useless chasing own's tail. Only rearranging items and adding white spaces. Android, JetBrains, MacOS, iOS, Windows. Sometimes I use a relict software or device with UI from 10-15 years ago and it was perfectly fine. Modern UIs introduce no advantage, even icons are not getting prettier anymore.

[Numerlor]

The jetbrains UI redesign actually allowed me to reclaim screen space. I immediately jumped on the beta and stayed with it in every editor.

Though there are other issues with their ides like slow fixing of reported bugs, and improper support for new feature which is most likely because of the bespoke implementation of everything

[Orygin]

I have to agree. UI updates generally go wrong because users are conservative and loathe any changes to their workflow, even if it improves it. I won't judge anybody who disliked the update, but to die on this hill is a bit silly (imo).

It took me some time (like a few days) to get used to the UI but it is a general improvement

[hprotagonist]

> If they'd just kept on quietly making the best IDEs available while everyone else in the industry has lost their damn minds, they'd be golden.

I recently heard this referred to as "the Brother Strategy": where you don't do anything, but become market leader because everyone else has been actively working on making their offering _worse_.

[ljm]

It's more the case in tech now that the investor is the first customer, not the actual customer.

This is the only way I can make sense of this no-expense-spared approach to adopt AI, regardless of its utility in the product.