I've had a personal license, but barely used it, because vim & emacs. But in the end, the problem with license is that I can't use it @myWork. There is plenty of outstanding editors these days - neovim, emacs, vscode for those loving to click around so that it would be difficult for me to argue why I do need a license for sublime. But I've had no problems to get my employer to pay for JIdea Ultimate, because the value of an IDE to vscode is pretty obvious.