Who are you talking to? I'm not the one telling you to accept contracts you don't want to accept. By all means, ask for stuff. But: my experience is, the fine-toothed-comb people end up asking for things that the company can't give, and then take to Twitter about the "red flags" they've identified, and all I'm saying is that it's a bad look.

The legal wrangling, for most engineers, isn't going to do anything to improve the bottom line. Leaving and picking better companies, on the other hand, might.