Makes sense, do you have experience "walking back on"? Interviewing is such a PITA and I'd like to avoid it if I can.
It would be a big derisk to just go along for the ride for like a year with a pay cut, and if it doesn't work out come back.
Not sure which one you work at but at Amazon when I left (~2 years ago), you could come back within 6 months no questions asked without an interview, come back within 1 year you have to interview but no bar raiser, come back after 1 year full interview process. I never tried going back but that's what it was.
That makes sense to me too, honestly with those kinds of numbers might as well take a paid sabbatical for six months lol.