Exactly, because of those 3 points above the new employee also takes on significantly less risk in comparison to joining pre-Series A. It's very logical and I don't really get what the OP was trying to explain.
VCs have more experience, so, sure, their judgement is worth considering, but I'd want to trust my own intuition too...
In other words: would you join an awesome team that's about to run out of cash? How about joining an awesome team with an 18 month runway? The answers to those are going to be very different.
All these things get set up as dichotomies when they aren't. All I'm really meaning is that "oh, they've got funded" feels like a pretty limiting way of deciding whether you think a startup will be be a winner or not, compared to meeting with your potential colleagues and kicking the tyres yourself - and the premium you get for guessing right if you throw in with the pre-Series-A team is actually pretty big.