No, I think it's incumbent on us developers to be more willing to pay for things. We know now that free doesn't really work.
* No sign in/email required
* Works offline
* No subscription
* Updates for 3 years included in price
* Perpetual license for older versions
* License per user, unlimited devices and operating systems, including home/work devices
* License is just a matter of copying a file
* No telemetry/phoning home without explicit opt-in
* No DRM/copy protection
* No root access required
* Works on Linux
I don't want to have to rely on the devs if I want to tweak something that's not meant to be configurable, or if I need to run the software on some unsupported configuration and it breaks.
If it is worthwhile and not freely available, I will certainly pay. There are some great IDEs and tools that fit into this category.
>> We know now that free doesn't really work.
I suppose it depends on your needs, but I find using free tools such as zsh, vim, tmux, linux, and many others very valuable to me.
Watching their demo didn't help either. At most the behavior seems an incremental improvement over what Bash ships with in most distros, and it's not even clearly better than that (IMO worse, I prefer the trailing slash or color-coding that Bash uses to distinguish file/dir properties vs icons). Joke: Is the "perceived need" really just because macOS's default Bash distro has these features disabled?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)#cite_note-60
There's so many great projects for bash and zsh add-ons like fzf.
But if their real product is the telemetry that also ships with it, and they've identified that many newbie developers have a hard time seeing through marketing pages directed at developers (eg like "webscale" stuff from mongodb circa 2010), then it, unfortunately, makes more sense.