[bryanrasmussen]

Well you can set standards, if you're the picky type you can then say how you want things done.

I am often less picky than other people, but I find that the picky types often want things that I feel are less than optimal.

So getting offered tech lead coming into a place can be seen as a good defensive choice if you are coming from a place where you feel like you've been suffering because you didn't have the control.