Where have you been in the last 2 decades?

Don’t think that’s a fair interpretation of what I said.

Liquid money rich? No.

Can get pulled for big tech packages? Also no, for most of the employees.

AFAIK, big tech didn’t aggressively poach OpenAI-like talent, they did spend 10M+ pay packages but it was for a select few research scientists. Some folks left and came but it boiled down to culture mostly.