>I suspect a lot of people were afraid to move on to new opportunities for a while due to the uncertainty of the pandemic. Once enough confidence was restored, the job hopping we'd expect to play out over the course of a couple of years all happened in a few months.

yep that's me. I wanted to quit over a year ago but I kept putting it off due to pandemic circumstances.

but now that everyone sees omicron is a wet fart and things are going back to normal, I put in my notice yesterday.