To weigh in with an alternative viewpoint, as a pretty average not-even-ftse250-never-mind-faang developer, I've seen typical .net dev salaries hover around £40k/£50k for the past 10 years now even around London.
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I'd say this isn't typical of most of the world, but it's not unprecedented.
e.g. "why don't they just do X"
as tho' the actual experienced engineers working over there on the problem couldn't come up with better ideas than some guy who happens to spend a lot of their day on the internet.
I got an email out of the blue one day from a product company asking me to remove a link. I did so, but I never really understood why a company would reduce business opportunity (however minute) by asking me to do this.
Turns out computer games jobs are quite few and far between, if you don't live in a big city so I ended up in the more common web dev role instead. Less fulfilling, but also probably less stressful and more stable (and better paid).
(I think they're all comparable products ... apologies if not)
(Not to totally give up exercise tho' - there are other health benefits besides losing weight)
Despite (in happier times) having to leave my desk frequently for meetings, with my laptop, I'd rather faff about with plugging and unplugging multiple cables than have to deal with the frustration of peripherals randomly losing connection while you're in the middle of working.