In a way it seems Embarcadero have their blinders on. But it is better than nothing. I think I would make the Delphi compiler free and charge everybody a pure s

In a way it seems Embarcadero have their blinders on. But it is better than nothing. I think I would make the Delphi compiler free and charge everybody a pure subscription for the IDE at pricing levels comparable to Jetbrains, but without any kind of fallback to avoid competing with yourself. It would allow them to focus on making an excellent IDE to secure recurring revenue, at their own pace. But they seem to be wired to chase (existing) corporate accounts. Obviously they will be people who will develop tooling around their free compilers, but that helps build a funnel for a high quality IDE and greatly increases chances to become a platform again.