PE can definitely be 'problematic' to put it lightly, but i did witness one example of a PE deal done well: a company was bought out by PE with the help of an i

PE can definitely be 'problematic' to put it lightly, but i did witness one example of a PE deal done well: a company was bought out by PE with the help of an involved CEO, who set aside a pool of money for employees if they hit key growth metrics that allowed the PE firm to sell within some number of years. a number of otherwise not-well-compensated employees were about to buy houses/pay off mortgages who otherwise wouldn't have been able to do so. there's a difference between finance-based PE and fundamentals-based PE, with the former unfortunately being much more prevalent than the latter. finance-based PE uses financial leverage to restructure a company's capital structure to squeeze out gains, which is not really improving the company at all, and usually to the detriment of the now debt-laden company.