As a general rule, companies have never hired people who want to rock the boat. The point is that the article missed that point. Nothing is different about "today" vs. any time in the past.
That's the article's point: for the last decade companies have been talking up creativity and innovation and hiring like it was 1959.
jobs was a founder ceo. then he left with a load of money, wasted it all in next, and came back as a bought ceo. with the ball and chain vesting agreements and all probably.