Exactly the reason I quit a publicly held employer in 2007 and refuse to work for another. With IPO, the business model changes from producing excellent, well-supported products to making the numbers imposed by martet analyists. Those imposed numbers expect endless growth, even for mature products which produce consistent profits. Management does whatever damage needs to be done to the company to make the current period's numbers with no regard for long-term anything.
The only thing which grows endlessly is a malignant tumor.