Talent going to rest and vest at lucrative cushy megacorp jobs or else toiling away on projects that would never see the light of day due to bureaucracy at the same megacorps, rather than working at riskier, more imaginative, companies?

Though you can't blame it exclusively on FAANG when rapidly rising living costs since 2008 and the housing crisis in tech hubs tend to force workers to seek the safest, most stable career paths.