Agreed about the extremeness of my case, although I would not call it as "obscenely obscure". There are plenty of people who went from FAANG to tech jobs of lesser responsibility, maybe they don't work 10 hours a week but 20, maybe they are half of what they used to make (not my money - say from 500k to 250k), they have greatly reduced worked-related stress, they can play with their kids or partners, and they would not go back to back-stabber friendly meat-grinders.