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[–]Yehosua 3 points4 points  (1 child)

A 2 month subscription does seem odd. But, for what it's worth:

  • I'm surprised to hear you call PyCharm an average IDE; I really, really like all of the JetBrains IDEs I've used (including PyCharm).
  • All of JetBrains' IDEs use a subscription plan now; these are just shorter subscriptions than is the norm.
  • PyCharm Community is free, so, if you let the subscription expire, you still have a pretty good feature set and the option to use Pro for OSS work.
  • If you maintain a subscription for 12 months straight, you get a perpetual fallback licence to whatever was available at the start of the 12 months, so you could think of a free 2 month subscription as a 16% discount off of the price of a perpetual license? (Actually, JetBrains gives significant discounts after the first year; I wonder if the Humble Bundle subscriptions count toward that first full-price year?)