How many publicly traded old companies had illiquid stocks that you couldn’t sell for something when they vested - especially tech stocks? Yes I know about Enron. But that was both an outlier and over a decade ago.

Yes, mine are down about 20% from the time I was awarded them. But at least I can sell them and not hope for an exit event.

I don’t thing employees of FAAMG (not a typo, Netflix was never “Big”Tech with a 1 trillion dollar* market cap) have to worry about their stock going to $0