Except in this case, Jetbrains lets you turn telemetry off and it stays off. Mandating telemetry for the free version makes a lot of sense. They want to unders

Except in this case, Jetbrains lets you turn telemetry off and it stays off. Mandating telemetry for the free version makes a lot of sense. They want to understand how people are using their software so they can improve it. Looking at how someone uses your software before they decide not to buy it seems pretty valuable. But also I suspect Jetbrains management wants more telemetry period. They've discovered that they don't know how power users work with their software because they've all had telemetry off for years.