Polishing and bug fixes cost money, but nobody wants to pay for that.  People only  want to pay for new shiny features.<p>If IntelliJ doesn&#x27;t get money because developers think &quot;old version is good enough for me&quot;, then there is no money for bug fixing and for keeping the product alive.  It would end up as abandonware like most apps on the iPhone App Store.<p>I&#x27;d guess the IDE have now reached this &quot;fully featured&quot; milestone where most developers don&#x27;t care to upgrade. So IntelliJ has to switch to a subscription model to survive.<p>So we users have the choice between paying a subscription or having the IDE end up as unmaintained software due to lack of funds.<p>IntelliJ can&#x27;t put out a new paid &quot;version 15&quot; which has bug-fixes only. People would be unhappy about that too.<p>I feel that the core IDE has degraded in quality over the past years because the releases were feature-driven, and I&#x27;d be happy to see IntelliJ refocus on quality instead of quantity.