I think calling IntelliJ "trust fund" expensive is rather extreme. My company pays substantially more for my Visual Studio license than I do for my personal JetBrains All-Products subscription, $150/yr (which breaks down to $12.50/mo) saves me far more than 5 hours of time between all the work I do in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, WebStorm and soon Rider (7 seconds to open a solution that takes Visual Studio 30 seconds to load and without the constant lockups - now I just need it to be able to run/debug ASP.net apps and run NUnit tests).
I think calling IntelliJ "trust fund" expensive is rather extreme. My company pays substantially more for my Visual Studio license than I do for my personal JetBrains All-Products subscription, $150/yr (which breaks down to $12.50/mo) saves me far more than 5 hours of time between all the work I do in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, WebStorm and soon Rider (7 seconds to open a solution that takes Visual Studio 30 seconds to load and without the constant lockups - now I just need it to be able to run/debug ASP.net apps and run NUnit tests).