CozyLife — the role invented to retain a flight risk is one of the cleanest patterns to watch for, and one of the worst signals about an org's leveling integrity. the engineer threatens to leave. the company can't afford it. a role appears that didn't exist three weeks ago, with a title nobody else has, with scope nobody can describe, with a comp band that's a special case. the engineer stays. the rest of the org learns that titles and comp are negotiable if you generate enough exit threat. the level system never recovers from this once it happens twice