This is a far from convincing argument. Jetbrains IDEs are not the equivalent of a professional lift and the competing (often free) products are not the equivalent of a 2x4.
Is Jetbrains good? Well, I've used it for Java and was pretty impressed.
Is it $199/year[1] better than the free stuff? Well many people don't think so. It's fine if you only every use a single stack, but most of us use multiple languages and multiple stacks, now you're looking at $649/year (see link below) for all tools. Considering that my current personal development computer cost less than that years ago, is it now wonder that the price is considered too much?
I think the problem is that developers are looking at the Jetbrains products and comparing it to the value they get from other development purchases.
Compare:
A single $1k computer will last for many years, do every single development task needed to make money, be used for entertainment, and write all the actual software that will be sold. When it is too slow for dev (in a decade from now), it'll be repurposed for something else.
A single annual payment of $649 to JB results in a tiny increase in dev speed, which will disappear at the end of the year anyway. It won't make the code more robust, it won't help solve business problems any faster, it will only make code navigation faster.
For a dev, look what $1000 buys, and then look at JB for $650, and it doesn't look like all that good value for money anymore.
[1] the cost for Goland at https://www.jetbrains.com/go/buy/#commercial