I would love it if people felt confident in doing that. The problem is that a lot of people get caught in a dark place when they're backed into a corner and can't get themselves out. I don't know if it's ever happened to you personally but people can become accepting of a bad situation simply because they find it too difficult to find a better one - most people (IMO nearly all) can get into this sort of a rut and may need help to get themselves out.
Sometimes you worked really hard and had a great strategy and your multi-year plan is starting to come together. All the pieces are snapping into place one after the other and you feel a great sense of progress... but then, at the last minute, it all falls apart based on some random freak incident that doesn't make sense and nobody could have predicted.
That's the reality of capitalism. The successful outliers are so rare, they may as well be fictitious characters in a fairy tale. Their experience has no meaning, no bearing whatsoever on the lives of real people. Their only purpose is to propagate the lie which holds the system together for their own benefit and at the expense of everyone else.