What you refer to as auto recovery is what I mean as auto save. Even your email clients do it. I will concede if you can see the value of auto recovery.
You're weird. Autosave is the norm in 2024. It's not unusual at all, and helps in the most important of use cases; accidental non-saving. It was the norm a decade ago.
Is it easy? Tech salaries have crazy potential, I'm not sure I'd be willing to trade job security for the limitations on that potential that a collective agreement might impose. It'd still be a tough sell.
If you value that kind of move at $600 million I'm happy to let you know I'm offering the services for a discount this week for only $580 million. Hit me up.
That's reasonable and should be the default. No special treatment, but no special restrictions either. That's only fair.