[lmm]

> If you like your employer and colleagues and are growing as an engineer isn’t that better in the long term?

No, growing as an engineer just means the reality of software development will make you more miserable.

> I think jumping around can risk creating an engineer who leaves a place worse than when they started.

Of course it does, but companies have made the choice to pay more for that than for someone who stays and makes the place better, we should give them what they want.