I did a transition from PhD to PI at a national lab, then moved to software engineering at a biotech and later a FAANG. I certainly don't miss writing grants, or papers, or going to conferences, or dealing with university power struggles. In industry I was still able to do research and publish even though I was a SWE- because Google encouraged that 15 years ago, and in fact, my most impactful papers and my reputation came from that time period as well.
It doesn't sting at all because I gradually came to the conclusion that academia was nothing at all like what I thought it would be: there's no real freedom to research what I wanted to, I was significantly underpaid for the time spent being excellent, and most of my time was being spent on overhead (keeping the university, professor, dean, funding agencies, and journal editors happy)