>Everyone has weird thoughts in their heads about RSUs people the last decade has been insane, and no one remember the last tech crash. The next one will be bigger and when you realize you are getting laid off at the same time that your RSU drop to near zero, it will feel like the variance might not be worth it.

As I wrote elsewhere, who knows? But in the dot-bomb crash, large solvent companies saw their stock tank by 95%. And, by the way, to first approximation no one was hiring so you're not just going to hop to another company.

Hopefully everything will be reasonably fine but I think a lot of people have an unrealistic expectation of worst case scenarios.