If you’re sitting under a tree in the rain and it gets soaked through and you start getting wet, finding another tree won’t help you.

The whole industry is adjusting to the reality that the expected output of an engineer is much higher than it used to be. It’s not local to one company. You may find a better environment for the time being, but this is the direction everything is headed.

Maybe once we get universal income we can start recommending this. Until then the individual isn't to blame when the only option to keep providing is to keep grinding in a toxic environment.

But I'd agree that everyone can start planning a career shift that'll span a few months to some years in order to seek better working conditions. Passively accepting all work degradation because that's life and money is needed is partly responsible for the current situation too.

Where to, that's the question. The economy is in the gutters and the replace-people-with-AI craze is making the issue even worse.