> Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio and also Jetbrains wants a word with you.
These days I use LibreOffice on Windows (though very rarely). Microsoft Office isn't free and doesn't come preinstalled, so screw that.
Microsoft Studio has free versions. I have three versions of it on various hard drives; all were free, and with all I was able to produce a program and ship it royalty-free.
But to stay on point, you were arguing against a $500 tool because "nobody" would learn it and there would be "no third-party ecosystem" - that's emphatically not true for the tools above, regardless of your personal preferences.
None of these tools are programming languages or mainly programming languages, except Visual Studio, which you can easily use free.
The point isn't that nobody pays for any kind of software. I mean, we could whip out enterprise software as an example. "Hey, the company I work for pays 700K per year for SAP support; whatddya mean $500 will kill a programming language tool?"
These days I use LibreOffice on Windows (though very rarely). Microsoft Office isn't free and doesn't come preinstalled, so screw that.
Microsoft Studio has free versions. I have three versions of it on various hard drives; all were free, and with all I was able to produce a program and ship it royalty-free.