It is quite bizarre how us programmers, who make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, are unwilling to pay $1,400 that will make us more productive.
Not all of us. Here in Latvia that amount would be around a half of one's salary, quite likely more than that.
The further you move in the direction of poorer countries, the less the argument of "developers are expensive, everything else is cheap" actually holds.
I don't doubt that in some places a single decent AWS EC2 instance would be a developer's salary.
Look at all the copies of IntelliJ (and derivatives) that are sold. I think people are willing when the price point is right and it can get into the workplace. I personally wouldn't spend $1400 unless I could make my life better from it somehow, and that would mean it making me significantly better at earning money.
You can use it for free util your revenue reaches $5,000.