You can pay a corporate that steals other's hard work without any consequences, $20/m at least. But can't pay another one that is actually putting up a respectable product for so many years, and you at least own it, even if you decided to stop paying?

I have been a paid user for 12+ years. Things got difficult more me this year, but I still renewed, because it's that important a tool for me. And, probably, this is just the hill I die on, owning something, that can't be whisked away at someone else's whim.

Obviously, they are still a corporate, but, until now they've respected me as a consumer unlike many other corporations. I value that.

They have their issues. But, which application does not?!

Their Git merge UI, is just top-notch. And keeps on improving I might use another coding agent, once JetBrain's credit runs out, but I review, and make all minor changes through the IDE

Project management is just a bliss.

Working with multi-language project? No IDE can manage this how good JetBrains does.

VIM binding is just so good, I don't miss VIM editor.

And the most important point is, they do not push something I do not want continuously. Don't want AI, turn it off, and it's not even there. My data is not being used to train some big LLM, or I am not counted as a product, is really important too.

Yeah, I hope they survive this messy shit, with the core that I have respect for. I hope they don't ruin that.

With all due respect, it is not the job of the customer to keep JetBrains alive for nostalgia/pity reasons.