I have to say I had the same experience with IntelliJ when developing for Android in 2013-15 or so. This year when trialing CLion I was very positively surprised by the evolution of their platform, it's easily the most usable environment for C++ development I have used.
I have experience from pure VIM, VSCode, Visual Studio for Windows, the reliable refactoring features alone are worth the price. With VSCode I would find the refactoring support not reliable and the intellisense features also might just stop working randomly depending on the project.
Prompted me to move to WebStorm also for web development, and I must say I have been very positively surprised there also.
Seems they have made some important strides in the past years, can highly recommend testing their environments out.
I have experience from pure VIM, VSCode, Visual Studio for Windows, the reliable refactoring features alone are worth the price. With VSCode I would find the refactoring support not reliable and the intellisense features also might just stop working randomly depending on the project.
Prompted me to move to WebStorm also for web development, and I must say I have been very positively surprised there also.
Seems they have made some important strides in the past years, can highly recommend testing their environments out.