Even if her arguments do hold up and now is somehow relatively worse than some time in the past (or future?) for starting startups it's still hard to argue that

Even if her arguments do hold up and now is somehow relatively worse than some time in the past (or future?) for starting startups it's still hard to argue that startups are worse than the alternative. Hopefully no one's arguing that this is an especially good time to take a crap job at a large company.