The employee's goal here isn't to make the employer feel proud, it's to exchange their services for money.

If the employer wants an employee they can feel proud of, well, that's a service too, and one they can purchase with money, if they choose.

Judging by the OPs comments, the employer could easily retain them if they offered them remote and a bit more comp.

It’s on the employer to retain talent.

I'm sure the company is only doing what's best for the employees. How ungrateful of them.

I tried paying my mortgage in pride, unfortunately the bank did not accept it.

Manager spotted.

Good thing I don't work just for their benefit.

Fuck My employer, and yours, and theirs

They certainly think the same about you. We could all be gone with no severance by tonight if they felt like it. We owe them nothing.

Are you for real? Employees owe employers nothing more than their labor for their last paycheck.