I feel like you see a lot more of the whole “fat ugly dude wins smoking hot woman because he is smart and funny and kind to animals” trope than the opposite. In fact, I can’t really think of a single example of the inverse other than… Shrek? And even that’s a stretch.
For junior positions maybe. For senior and especially principals there is a ton of value to continuity. When a senior engineer leaves it’s almost like replacing the entire team in terms of overhead if there isn’t a natural successor. And when principals leave you end up losing vision as well as that leadership. This can kill entire projects of it happens unexpectedly.
They aren’t communists, they are campists who harm leftist movements by doing things like simping for autocrats and making tyrants into folk heroes for the sake be being contrarian.
Banning criticism of China and Russia has literally nothing to do with communism.