New UI vs classic UI

I can't read other people's minds. But I'm sure no one that' strong-bound to IntelliJ IDE's as in willing to pay for them (as I do) is happy with the direction being taken around the new UI. I see opinions like mine all around.

You should listen to your customer-base, guys. Don't get budlight-mode and think you are smarter than the people giving their money to you. Making it look like VS code is exactly the opposite of why we are willing to pay for IntelliJ licenses.

If you think about attracting people using VS code by trying to make it look the same, well, I'm sure, average, that's not the kind of people that pays for IntelliJ licenses.

Should effort be paid on something, in my opinion as a customer, is multi-language and keep improving remoting. That's your weakness as a product compared to vs code. That's it. Anything else de-naturalizes the reason why we buy IntelliJ products.

I use both Idea and Clion on remoting and its a pain every singe step of the way (add same project with both c++ and go code base and is a hell of pain). Yet I stick to it rather than moving to vs code (which sucks about anything else but by all means remoting works as a charm compared to yours and supports multi-language) just *exactly* because of the classic IntelliJ UI metaphore and features.

Clearly remoting is the future of the market. May be you are confusing remoting with making it look like VS code, from a marketing perspective.

PS: You need to do something about your  remoting dev team. I've never seen such a prolific production of bugs, ever, in IntelliJ's history. There's clearly somethign wrong there. If anything is going make you lose marketshare, is clearly this, not the classic UI metaphore which we all love and is far superior to VS code.