CTO coming in hot, an employee poaching lawsuit, pet dev team working in “bunker”, and that no matter how well-documented and designed “Chesterton’s fence” applies to back-ends so it’s unlikely to be a smooth cut-over. These are all bad signs.

What’s good is that you have some number of months, maybe a year, maybe more, to find your next role.

This desktop right here (running a couple of ZFS pools) has drives with more than 3 years on it…

$ for d in $(find /dev/sd[a-z]); do sudo smartctl --all --json $d| jq -c '[.model_name,(.power_on_time.hours/8760)]' ; done
["CT1000MX500SSD1",2.2034246575342467]
["WDC WD140EDGZ-11B1PA0",0.3791095890410959]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",4.040639269406393]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",5.925684931506849]
["WDC WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0",3.359246575342466]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",5.925684931506849]

runs like a top (better not jinx myself).