I admit to getting quite pissed off, but I eventually decided that it wasn't worth it, and just retired.
I'm grateful that I had the means. Because of that, I would have been happy to take a lot less than many, if the work interested me, but it never got that far.
NBD. I've found that learning on my own is better, anyway. LLMs have been a Godsend, there.
These days, I get quite a bit done, but I do it on my own terms, and that makes all the difference.
This is what I’m working on, now[0]. Still has a ways to go, though. I should publish it next week.
My heroes are guys like Stu Nicholls and Howard Oakley. I've learned so much, since I decided to retire, and it's accelerating.