I am a lot more concerned about the fate of adjuncts. UCLA was seriously shamed recently because it was running job ads for PhDs to work without pay.
There are also a lot of scandals of tenure track people who don’t get tenure for reasons like: we can’t afford to have another tenured prof when adjuncts can teach the course, this prof was in an area that was fashionable 5 years ago but now it is not, etc.
I’d point to Jordan Peterson, who quit his tenured prof job, as a special example. That guy has had so much success with the message he is pushing today that him teaching a class at a uni would be like the boss of Walt Disney World hand squeezing oranges at a roadside stand. He was not driven out but instead found much greener pasture.
As for Pinker I’d leave out anybody who was such a shameless enabler of Jeff Epstein (e.g. Bill Clinton rode on the Lolita Express but didn’t publically discredit himself the way Pinker did defending Epstein.)