I’ve taken risks like that, bucking “reputation” scare tactics, and people respected me more I’ve seen a lot of things like that flip over the last 2 decades

I’ve taken risks like that, bucking “reputation” scare tactics, and people respected me more I’ve seen a lot of things like that flip over the last 2 decades Where the abuser doesn’t tend to be able to control reputation across an industry, so they can be called out A freelance software developer wouldn't be affected by that, YMMV