This was not my experience working at FAANG. RSU's started out as 30% of my comp and ended up well over 60% by the time I left.
Either way, definitely not "might as well round to zero". I have never worked anywhere where that was the case.
They’re saying that few workers get RSUs
Which I worried was so obvious it wasn't worth remarking... but here we are.
Well, with all due respect you could've worded that better. It sounded as if you were making a blanket statement over all individual jobs that involve RSUs, as opposed to a statement over all jobs as an aggregated statistic.
For jobs with high compensation, RSUs are such a high part of the compensation that it's often more than the base salary.
That isn't true outside of tech? Finance/big law/consulting/healthcare etc... all primarily work on cash bonuses.