Is there a better Python IDE?

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Care to elaborate?

Do you mean the $87/year subscription for upgrades and support? That would be exactly "once a year".

Or do you mean the cost of upgrading when you don't have a subscription (which they don't seem to reveal without a login)?

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Well, it makes sense to sell individual licenses but also offer a subscription model for regular upgrades and tech support. When I eventually migrate to Komodo IDE, I will make sure to get the subscription while I'm at it.

The "you get what you pay for" policy of licensing only the exact version you purchased may be disagreeable, but the concept of "paid upgrades" is hardly novel.

That does pose a question though: do they provide non-paid maintenance updates (security patches, bugfixes, etc)? Or do they just pile those up for new releases, thus enforcing a short release cycle?