For you to short something a institutional investor or market maker takes a long position on the same thing.
For some reason legit institutional investors never really show up in the crypto sphere and the smart market makers don’t like to get high on their own supply (or are selling tokens they got at insider prices on the open market).
Jetbrains products also have a fallback license after a year, so you retain perpetual acces to an old version* and I don’t think there is much change in the space of git UIs.
* iirc the version that you had one year before your payment lapsed, it applies to discounted versions as well