It's not really about expecting the same salary and position. My point was more about how corporations don't know how to rate / value / judge your bootstrapping

It's not really about expecting the same salary and position. My point was more about how corporations don't know how to rate / value / judge your bootstrapping experience and thus will, by default, likely "lowball" you. I agree that this is rational on their end. Note that this point applies more to non-technical roles. This will still happen with engineers, but less so since it's easier to quantify technical skills. I can see how my point came across as entitled. That was not my intent.