&gt; 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>Sorry but this doesn&#x27;t make any sense to me and I doubt IntelliJ&#x27;s sales are putting the company in any danger.<p>Even if they couldn&#x27;t come up with new features, the programming languages and frameworks keep evolving and the tooling needs to catch up with that. But I can come up with a hundred things to improve from the top of my head, so I&#x27;m sure they can too.