True, but people will also not have to explain themselves when they eventually switch to VS Code because VS Code is free, has the same UI, and get more feature rich by the week.

IntelliJ is incredibly feature rich. Eclipse fell behind, because its corporate backers like IBM, I assume, didn't fund it as massively anymore. Who's sponsoring VSCode for Java development in a way that competes with the weight that JetBrains is throwing around in that space? I don't use VSCode, so this is part honest question (and part presumption).

Of course not. IntelliJ is on another level when it comes features, if you really think people use IntelliJ for their UI, you’re deeply mistaken.

Jetbrains has a lot more IDEs than just IntelliJ.

I mean IntelliJ platform, not IntelliJ Idea.

> people will also not have to explain themselves when they eventually switch to VS Code

People need not justify the tools they choose to anyone, so correct, should that happen, people will not have to explain themselves.