We are sorry to make you feel like we de-prioritized ReSharper. Actually, we do not. For quite a while we were busing with working on one of the most important change in ReSharper - making it work out of VS process. This is now a default mode starting with 2026.2.1: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#out-of-process
This was also accompanied with a huge work on various performance issues and freezes.
Another big thing for ReSharper was unlocking VS users to use more agents in VS: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#preview-of-acp.... Next release we plan to bring in Claude Code and OpenAI Codex via this ACP entrance. And then we will combine that with the classical ReSharper intelligence in the format of skills, hooks, etc.
As for the free tier, in VS Code it's indeed there for non-commercial usage, but we don't see that many non-commercial users in VS. Majority of ReSharper users are organizational clients. That's why our decision on licensing. Hope that explains. But open to any feedbacks here.
Another big thing for ReSharper was unlocking VS users to use more agents in VS: https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#preview-of-acp.... Next release we plan to bring in Claude Code and OpenAI Codex via this ACP entrance. And then we will combine that with the classical ReSharper intelligence in the format of skills, hooks, etc.
As for the free tier, in VS Code it's indeed there for non-commercial usage, but we don't see that many non-commercial users in VS. Majority of ReSharper users are organizational clients. That's why our decision on licensing. Hope that explains. But open to any feedbacks here.