I sympathize with your position but bad management/toxic culture are also systemic problems in the software world. It could be that the person just had a string

I sympathize with your position but bad management/toxic culture are also systemic problems in the software world. It could be that the person just had a string of bad projects and was trying to avoid getting burned out. It would suck if someone got locked out of a good job that might have helped their career due to that.