You can ask for an extended unpaid sabbatical of 6-12 months. Your employer will love it during this time, and not have to worry about hiring when things are better next year.
Perhaps they do this so they can carry over this tech into their cars. If you are making millions of cars per year, with tens or hundreds of chips per car, it is easy to reason doing this on your own instead of outsourcing it.
They don't include Amazon links, for example. They also don't effectively connect all of Wayfair's links. These two sets alone comprise of roughly 60% of online furniture sales.
