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For me, most of the time when I left a job at low day counts, the job was not as advertised and actively harming my mental health.

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I see. I can imagine that happening once or twice, but if it happens a lot, there are probably some behaviors you can change on your end to get a better idea of fit before jumping into the job. Either that, or the specificity of what you want would scare me as a potential employer. I wouldn't want to hire someone if there was an 80% chance they would decide the job was mentally unhealthy and leave within a few months.

2016 was a year full of confounding factors. I've been idly considering removing everything from that year from my resume entirely.

I personally found that part very comforting. Very few people generally talk about getting fired or quitting early, which created this sort of impression to me that everyone just had a model career and never ran into any roadblocks and that I would be under pressure to do the same.

Seeing that someone who is quite succesful and to me admirable got terminated multiple times was very reassuring there.

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