Yes, it is called a cushy early retirement/severance package versus the risk of an uncertain future.
In a former life, I was in a quasi-government job and faced with the choice of taking what I could get and leaving versus fighting on against an environment dominated by idiots with an uncertain outcome. Since I had the know-how and talent to get a better paying gig elsewhere, I chose the former. Most people do.
Lots of us think we would be willing to fight on to prove a point and achieve justice. The reality is that the stress and toll it takes on your health and on your family just isn't, in most cases, worth it. It is all the more true when the justice to be administered is by a system which is rigged and corrupt.
Those studnet protestors are just a bunch of almost “educated” street rats.
I have no problem then if these profs are basically being paid to resign. Universities are becoming dead end jobs now. I was just curious what they get if someone says "I expect your letter of resignation tomorrow morning!". I guess I'd say "right after you show me the money!"