For now, I pressume. I guess it's a matter of time until the AI features can no longer be disabled.

I like a good conspiracy but based on what? Jetbrains have no incentive to force that, they make money based on providing flexible tools that people will pay for. And their IDEs are desktop apps, you could always just... not upgrade. Unlike web or cloud-based "IDEs".

You're still stuck paying for the garbage regardless, and funding an organization that thinks this is an acceptable business direction.

I was already a satisfied paying customer. I don't need that new stuff but I understand they have to go where the market goes if they want to stay relevant vs competitors (Microsoft VSCode/Github/Copilot) in the eyes of prospective customers who judge products using comparative feature grids.

If you don't want to use an IDE or pay for your tools that's fine. You don't have to look for reasons to hate on it. No one cares what you don't use.

> I don't need that new stuff but I understand they have to go where the market goes if they want to stay relevant vs competitors

Looking at the people racing to jump off the cliff and saying "let's maybe consider not doing that" can be an competitive advantage, see https://procreate.com/ai