I was responding to a direct statement by the parent comment about non-competes. If you think they're irrelevant, you should complain to them, not me.

That’s the key point, what’s happening here is theft.

Yes, this is why garden leaves are popular in quant finance.

You get paid for about a year to do nothing so that the trade secrets from your firm (trading strategies) expire.

That's very different from a non-compete. A non-compete is about your own know-how, not the company's.

Your gripe is with the parent comment then for mentioning them in the first place, not me. I was just responding to their aside.