Platform isn't really doing "good" technical work though, they just get to do technical work without having to care about customers. Their work is incredibly sub-par for a company closing in on a billion dollars in ARR, and the rest of the company suffers immensely for it.
The truly good engineers attempt to "deal with all the debt", find out that Rippling does not care about the debt, and hence does not reward these behaviors, so they ultimately go elsewhere.