I would be curious what traits separate JetBrains vs VS Code people. Anecdotally, it is people who want a lot of control of their system (VS Code) vs people who do not want to deal with all that crap (JetBrains).

I did try VS Code once, but the lack of autosave annoyed me enough that my trial lasted less than a day. This was admittedly before I knew there was a large ecosystem of extensions and I am sure there is some extension to deal with that problem, but needing to go scavenging for things like that would annoy me.

The 250 bucks is a great deal to not have to deal with things like that.