I have canceled my subscription the moment they started spending development time on AI hype instead of their core product.
I can still use the fallback licence (you keep the version you've paid a year for, i.e 2023, forever), and I will do so until it stops working, while transitioning to other editor wherever possible (nvim in my case, which I've already gotten used to pretty well thanks to ideaVim)
Until they stop with the overhyped AI bullshit, I won't get a new version. And, seeing how they beg for user data in the most uncanny blogpost possible, that'll probably be never.
It's a shame, I liked jetbrains.
As someone from the first generation that grew up with phones and social networks in school, it will absolutely have a disastrous effect.
I can compare myself to people few years above me, who only got phones, social networks and short form content later in the life, and the effect is huge. I have been trying for years to get rid of PC addiction, I don't even watch shows or use social networks other than Lemmy, but it's still hard for me to do any kind of project because I simply don't have the attention span and frustration tolerance.
I also spent up to 17y.o just playing games and not having any other hobbies. I did catch up on ot later, but since I never really had to spend time alone while working on something frustrating, without constant dopamine, I quickly drop projects and need someone else to work on it with me to keep me interrested. It sucks, and even after years of trying to work on it, I still haven't even started most of what I'd want to do.
I'm lucky I didn't have AI and at least learned to program and make games, I'm already pretty socially anxious, but it's not that bad. If I also had AI during all this, that would summarize or write every text I read/write longer than a paragraph, I can only imagine how worse off I'd be. It's extremely teryfiing.
And no, it's not ADHD, meds don't help, I had a therapy for a few years. It has pretty much the same symptoms, but it's extremely multiplied by the computer and short-form content. It's basically a "learned ADHD" as in not biological but phsychological, and it sucks. It is only anecdotal, but I believe that a lot of people with adhd are simply in the similar situation as I am, engineered by corporations to only be able to pay attention to their content en masse.