Yeah, for sure. For every person I know in the legacy tech hub cities/regions who are considering that trendy move to Texas -- people there's a big article about every week these days, it feels like -- I know 2 or 3 more people who are well-positioned for such a move but ultimately decide against it for what we could politely call "cultural factors" like the stuff depicted in these articles.

(Now, of course, this insane totalitarian bullshit happens even in these friends' allegedly liberal tech hub cities. But they see the Austins and Nashvilles of the world as being replete with such things, and articles like these suggest they're not all that far off.)