[JonLim]

I don't disagree on your sentiment on the gamedev industry and how it treats devs, but I agree with the author on the point of optimizing for a better career than just optimizing for salary bumps.

Their checklist shares a lot with mine, and I can only assume money will come with having grown in supportive and great development environments.

[UK-AL]

Supportive and great developer environments probably correlates well with companies that pay well and respect(correlated with pay) their developers