No, your post is the one that is out of touch with reality. You're correct that if somebody is good enough to get an offer from IBM, they're good enough to get

No, your post is the one that is out of touch with reality. You're correct that if somebody is good enough to get an offer from IBM, they're good enough to get offers nearly everywhere else. Where you're wrong is thinking that most developers factor how well other developers are being treated when making employment decisions. If they cared, we would have had a professional association like the screen actor's guild decades ago that codified how developers deserve to be treated, but we don't.