Few, if any, people are complaining about paying money for the tool.  I don&#x27;t know where comments like this are coming from.<p>What I, and most, are complaining about is the fact that they are turning their offerings into &quot;rental only&quot; software (a disturbing trend in the industry).<p>I have no problems paying JetBrains, and I do, every year, even for duplicate product offerings whose functionality is included in the main IntelliJ product because I love them so much.<p>I have a problem with rental only software that will stop working the second I stop paying you.  I will no longer be a JetBrains customer if they do not bring back a perpetual license offering, and I have told them so.<p>See my other comment [1] for why customers are allowed to complain.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10170759" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10170759</a>