“The problem with removing a bundled plugin is that it can break application signatures and cause problems with updates,”
JetBrains baked its AI Assistant into PyCharm and IntelliJ so deep that paying customers can’t delete it. More than a dozen YouTrack threads ask for a way out. JetBrains says nothing is sent off-machine without consent, and calls the removal problem a matter of signatures. Bundling a product that customers have to buy separately and then making it impossible to remove is an upsell with a lock on it.