The market continues to do a lot of culling, yes, but some commercial software is great. Look at the Jetbrains products. They make many open source IDEs feel

The market continues to do a lot of culling, yes, but some commercial software is great. Look at the Jetbrains products. They make many open source IDEs feel janky, broken, and non-cohesive in comparison. Some problems aren't solved eloquently by being loosely community owned; sometimes you need a paid, focused group.