This seems pretty optimistic to me. I can't imagine any company I've worked for paying for those things. Especially because they're only going to be useful if everyone uses Zed which is unlikely.
From my perspective it is very weird to expect to beat MS (who produces two great IDE’s, not one) on their own game with this approach to dev.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to have the most important features replicated, but, c’mon, this is software, it breaks as it builds and some things are not possible Overnight even if you have the worlds top top top talent around.
Dev tooling is a notoriously difficult space to make money. Free tools tend to win because if a tool costs money, a developer is just as likely to write their own version. (For better or worse)
No, free tools win because a proprietary license is a rent-seeking ball and chain on your means of production.
This might hurt Zed.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/10/24/webstorm-and-ride...
I have never worked at a place that uses Jetbrains products which does not pay for their premium offering.
Zed's vision is that the editor is free and you're paying basically for Teams-lite.
If you're a big company, you're already using a service like Teams, Slack, Zoom, etc.
If you're a small company, then there's free alternatives like Discord.
And say you want to talk to someone other than a programmer, then you'd need something else anyway. Because a project manager wouldn't need an IDE installed.