I am having trouble understanding this viewpoint. For my position, I buy PyCharm Professional license, paying about $50 for each one year license. I plan to keep buying that license every year to get upgrades. To me, I end up paying the same price every year. If I want to try a tool for a month I can pay a few dollars for it, then let it go. To me, that&#x27;s an advantage.<p>I am curious about &quot;JetBrains now controls pricing&quot;. Haven&#x27;t they always? If they raised their price outrageously for yearly upgrade model, they would lose customers, so that&#x27;s true of new and old system. I have control of whether I pay their price or not, but they get to control the price, as always.<p>I understand to some degree that losing access to a tool is an inconvenience, but it doesn&#x27;t strike me as a terrible burden. It&#x27;s all just a view into the code, there&#x27;s nothing irreplaceable about it. So renting compared to having guaranteed permanent access is a loss, but it doesn&#x27;t seem that awful - but that&#x27;s very different person to person.<p>Anyway, I am legitimately curious to hear more about this viewpoint. I <i>kind</i> of get it but don&#x27;t have the strong visceral reaction to it as many others on here. Is it a use case difference, of people who skip upgrades versus those who don&#x27;t and pay every year? Or is it fundamentally a philosophical stance on own versus rent?