I have one of the happier cases perhaps. At time of hire, my target comp was around $160k, RSUs were backloaded to mainly vest in years 3 and 4. I’m now in those years, and stock has risen a lot. Now I’m making more like $230k. Sure, they used that once to not give me a big raise, but I got promoted once with a 25% raise and it’s hard to complain when I’m bringing home far more than I would have thought. So RSUs can be good.