Most commercial beer completely removes the yeast though, even many microbreweries. If you don't visibly see sediment in the bottle, it has been filtered. The reason is consistency in product and consumer preferences.
This was my experience as well. I became very interested in F# and Clojure about 6-8 years ago because they were seemingly better languages that attracted better users.
I was wanting to work with people who cared more about the work they were doing than those I had been working with. I thought functional programming was a way to so this. I thought that by learning these languages that I would find the programming promised land of good tools and good users.
I never found anything like that though. I couldn't find many jobs using these languages and the few I did seemingly were too difficult to be hired in. And I was never successful in evangelizing them in the roles I was already in.
The F# landscape seems to be worse than it was a few years ago. And I am fairly certain it will never change for the better. I think being .net hinders it in a way that the JVM doesn't hinder clojure. C# is a pretty good language and platform and the community is fairly aligned with the Microsoft's direction and influence on the ecosystem.
IIRC the layers of dead trees also caused pervasive fires. One because of the fuel from the trees, but also because oxygen levels were much higher due to large amount of carbon trapped in the trees.
Apparently much of worlds coal was also from this period.
I have seen the same as well. It also causes the managers to be disconnected from the realities of the team. Since they've delegated most everything, they don't need to pay attention and are free to go play politics with the other managers and senior leadership. This then leads to poor decision making by the managers when they actually need to make decisions.
I suspect they're thinking longer term than 3 months. The S&P returned nearly 29% in 2021, 18% in 2020 and 38% in 2019. That is doubling your money (nominally) in 3 years which is fantastic compared to the averages.
I experienced something similar in terms of having to juggle numerous responsibilities spanning multiple roles. It is unfortunate and not only is your company taking advantage of you, your coworkers are too. This is at least what I experienced where I'd go out of my way to help others yet those I helped rarely paid it back.
I'm in between jobs now and am down leveling in my new role to a senior developer from an architect/manager/lead dev with just as much pay and comparable benefits and plenty of other appealing aspects. It took me 4 months to find the right position, but I was patient. The excitement and relief are palpable.
FAANG companies have never interested me much so I'm willing to take a lower comp, but I still do really well for my area.
My point is that it just isn't worth the headache. A retention bonus probably isn't life changing money so ask if it is worth it at all. Maybe you'll get it before you find that new job, maybe you won't. But focus on what will make your life better, not just compensation and titles.
You're being taken advantage of and not compensated for what you bring to the table.
I also don't see general functional programming listed, which was more prevalent a few years ago. Different times.