> You can stop subscribing and are left with a perpetual license for the current version you are on

Yeah, we (IntelliJ subscribers) had to fight[1] for that[2]: before there was an outcry, JetBrains had planned to brick[3] your IDE the moment your subscription lapsed.

1. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/04/we-are-listening/

2. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/18/final-update-on-t...

3. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbr...