To be completely honest, what he describes seems to be what I've run into at nearly every stop I've been at as a consultant. I honestly never thought of it as hell, but I've also never been in a much better, tech tooling-friendly environment like at one of the FAAMNGs.

I suspect the people who end up leaving those environments for a more normal F500 company are going to be in for a shock in terms of work ergonomics and pay. This guy was lucky that he was able to squirrel away so much tech-worker money to be able to quit without a backup plan.