It's the same behavior with the Kotlin plugin - you can't remove it and even when disabled it'll constantly hassle you about updating. I suspect the root cause

It's the same behavior with the Kotlin plugin - you can't remove it and even when disabled it'll constantly hassle you about updating. I suspect the root cause is that they want to inflate the numbers of how many people "use" their new service (AI) or language (Kotlin). This way they can just report every single installation of IntelliJ as part of their marketing/sales numbers.