Admittedly I'm just speaking from conversations within my own network, but if hiring this kind of talent was significantly difficult then I'd expect to see broa

Admittedly I'm just speaking from conversations within my own network, but if hiring this kind of talent was significantly difficult then I'd expect to see broad, industry-level changes to how startup compensation was done. Companies can't survive if they can't hire people, and yet the same ISO practices remain aside from a few recent trend setters. So it seems most of the eligible candidate pool is still accepting this form of compensation.