I clearly mentioned they walked back the decision within days of the initial announcement.

I don't understand how you could possibly have read my comment as describing their current licensing practices, with the tenses I was using.

You can go read up on the disastrous announcement and the followup at https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2015/09/03/introducing-jetbr...

Fair enough - I guess we will have to agree to disagree on whether that warrants never trusting them again.

I think they did, but then walked back and announced that you will just fallback to the previous version of whatever IDE you were subscribed to if you cancel the subscription. I think the situation caused quite a backlash when they announced the original plans.