The one comment which you made which seems likely to be false, based even just on the clarity of thought and communication in this post alone is...
“there was no real justification for me to spend my own money moving to the US and staying here to work on these things whilst someone from Boston could have worked on them instead.”
I might push it a bit further and suggest that perhaps your background and the strength of this post could be a small piece of evidence towards one of your “reasons I might be wrong”, namely “might be significantly underestimating the value of diversity and inclusion ”
Wow this is an impressively articulated post.
The one comment which you made which seems likely to be false, based even just on the clarity of thought and communication in this post alone is...
“there was no real justification for me to spend my own money moving to the US and staying here to work on these things whilst someone from Boston could have worked on them instead.”
I might push it a bit further and suggest that perhaps your background and the strength of this post could be a small piece of evidence towards one of your “reasons I might be wrong”, namely “might be significantly underestimating the value of diversity and inclusion ”