Then you have an extremely rare experience.

It’s like a professor who did happen to get tenure listening to all the post docs talking about how awful academia is. I’m happy for that one lottery winner but their experience doesn’t count for anything.

Totally the opposite.

Most startups are dynamic, most big corporations are not. They are 'big' because they are sitting on a value chain monopoly.

The same chocolate bars have been in my grocery aisle for 20 years. Variations on the same soap.

Some startups are very poorly run, but most are not led by 'unrestrained jerks'.

No, it’s not like this. Most startups promise to be dynamic as a tactic to pay people less and swindle them on poor options deals, then they bait and switch you, the work experience is not as advertised.

Startups are by definition 'dynamic'.

If you are going to a startup and doing a very rote, repetitive thing, then you're not very lucky, but most startup jobs are definitely not that.

The risk is that there is 'too much dynamism' and people and up spinning their wheels, over pivoting, crashing. But that's definitely 'dynamic'.

Lol, have you considered it might be you who had the extremely rare experience?

If it weren’t for all the ubiquitous articles talking about bait and switch startup jobs, poor startup compensation, cheating founders, controlling VCs, slave driver mentality, rip off stock options, and the poor survivability of companies, you might have a point.