So would you rather pay a one-off fee for a JetBrains product and have no maintenance and support for it?<p>And by that I mean not even access to their public forums and for their devs to stop posting on Stack Overflow. Because that&#x27;s the reality for most one-off purchase products. You&#x27;ll get minimal over-the-phone customer support if you&#x27;re lucky.<p>Not sure why you see it as a product that doesn&#x27;t fit a subscription model. These devs have to constantly put in a ton of work to support this kind of product.<p>And like other comments have pointed out, if you don&#x27;t see the value, there ARE free alternatives. It&#x27;s your call. Ultimately if JetBrains have in fact got this offering wrong then customers will say no and JetBrains will lose out.