What is strange about paying for tools that improve productivity? Unless you consider your own time worthless you should always be open to spending more to gain more.
Your own time is worthless if you’re not spending it doing something that makes more money. You don’t make more money increasing your productivity for work when you’re expected to work the same number of hours.
Are the jobs out there actually paying people more?
No stock backed company will be paying developers more regardless of much more productive these tools make us. You'll be lucky if they pay for the proper Claude Max plan themselves considering most wouldn't even spring for IntelliJ.