I think it’s an interesting comment. Hard to not take that kind of thing personally though.

I take it extremely personally, after all, I'm talking about voluntarily decreasing my own salary to achieve better work life balance in the present.

However, decreasing salary != decreased total compensation.

Increase equity shares + decrease salary = improved work-life balance now and much healthier retirement in the future.

It happens, I wouldn’t sweat it

People do stuff like skim, see 'decrease salaries' and click down without really thinking or even reading it all. It can be kinda random and not worth worrying about.

Nah, there are people that run companies here, too. Many of them drink the cool-aide.