[gigatexal]

Exactly this. Every time an org loses a senior dev not only with lots of valuable skill and proven productivity and knowledge about how the company works etc it should be affected in the stock price if the place is publicly traded. That’s how much I think it hurts. The replacement cost to bring up other team members or to skill up and train juniors takes a lot of time and energy and money.

Now if this dev left because he or she was an asshole and everyone hated working with them then it could be a net net positive or even if on the whole is negligible then that’s a win in terms of team morale and productivity.