I can see it working for an opposite reason. Someone who has been paid decently to write mathematically challenging software in an interesting and ergonomic lan

I can see it working for an opposite reason. Someone who has been paid decently to write mathematically challenging software in an interesting and ergonomic language would probably want a premium to go somewhere they use a boring annoying language to solve lots of trivial problems. It is an extension of why game dev and to a lesser extent, embedded dev, pay less than full stack even if they are typically more challenging.