While this isn't a unique perspective, I think it's wild more people don't understand this. What happened is everyone is being "promoted" to staff+ level engineer and they're realizing the realities of that situation.

The funny part is that these are the same people who are upset that these folks up the food chain "do nothing".

If you’re a manager you have people under you that care about the code they write and the direction of the company, not typewriter monkeys.

They're being "promoted" without any kind of extra income, only elevated expectations and responsibilities

So no wonder people aren't happy