Excellent perspective and very fair insights, thanks.
Also it needs to be borne in mind that a significant amount of management payment is in the form of options.
A lynch crowd kept on and on with a campaign of including the dollar value of the options as if they'd been issued.
In fact, they'd lapsed!
Surely it's unreasonable for posters to conflate options with dollar earnings and gloss over this possibility?
It's tiring having to defend management to just to even discussion up, given the avalanche of posts that attack. This is instead of being able to analyse more fairly with a reasonable amount of available oxygen. But that's life in chat rooms!