Positron looks like the next version of Rstudio, which is currently free. Do you think the plan is to phase out support for the free product and push users into the paid one?
We're still investing in RStudio and while the products have some overlap there's no attempt to convert people from one to the other.
(I work at Posit on both of these products)
It paid for itself in terms of scientists spinning up their own projects without having to provision server hardware, VMs, or anything else.