I motivated my Cursor-colleagues to switch to tmux+nvim -- they don't use it all the time, but they enjoy the vibe. Claude is running on some tmux pans. Much nicer than VSCode!
I just read the Wikipedia page, and it does not seem to fit your analysis. They present the origin on the term, what it means, and then disclose that a consensus among scholars is to reject the term nowadays. They disclose also that some recent scholars have found it appropriate and cite one of them.
On the other hand, Grokipedia seems very biased to me. “This historiographical tension underscores broader tensions between romanticized medievalism and data-driven assessments of civilizational trajectories.” What a pejorative criticism! If you don’t think that dark age is an appropriate term, you are not data driven and you are just too sensitive??
On subject that I don’t know much about, I am quite happy to know the scientific consensus. Discussions on Wikipedia do an amazing job to help me figure out what’s going on.
I am a CEO of a young French startup in France (bootstrapped to 6 employees) and I hold a PhD in AI. But overall I have limited knowledge about partnership breakdowns.
I would recommend to compute the worth of your equity not based on a startup valuation but on how much money would you have made if you would have been a consultant.
Indeed, the hard work on the startup has not been achieved yet. It takes a lot of times, energy and lucks to go through all stages.
The best scenario for you (in terms of satisfaction and experiences) remains that the company succeed.