I'm a huge fan of SublimeText the editor, but not a huge fan of SublimeText the company behind it. The balancing act they did was sell licenses that are good for an entire major version (eg SublimeText 2, 3, etc.) that never expire. I'm comfortable enough to pay $50 for a good IDE major version even though I dislike the company's development direction (eg, I'm probably not going to buy SublimeText 4 because of the plugin chaos).

EDIT: "Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase" - looks like I'm a pirate then.