Unless you actually work there, how are you so confident that Stripe's actual culture has been "maintained" outside of reading company sanctioned blog posts/think pieces...? Or that the actual culture has ever even closely mirrored the one that has been outwardly portrayed?

Glassdoor is not perfect, but I think I get more insight into the reality on the ground looking through recent reviews than a blog post, and at least from what I can see recent reviews over the last few months are extremely mixed.