> It's your choice to continue working at such places.

To some degree. The problem is every place you talk to there is a "well there could be crunch times when we're busy and you'll have to put in extra hours but those won't be frequent" conversation which seems okay at first. Then you join and you find out they're fighting fires almost every week and depending on the fire management may get compensated whereas developers do not.

It's not always an easy thing to avoid. I've seen it at big companies and start-ups. Start-ups typically seem the worst with this type of thing in fact, at least in my experience.