Going with, in general, a company with less than 50 employees doesn't have to meet many of the requirements larger ones do when it comes to things like the FMLA.
Yeah but the demand for talent was such that, for at least a long time, the benefits and perks at startups usually exceeded those of the bigger companies. This may not be the case now, but I still think what you describe is not true often enough to be considered a general truism
Not true enough? It’s literally how the laws are written. They exempt companies with fewer than X employees, where X is almost always 50