Mitzrayim: How Can the Jews Have Wanted To Stay — Even Return — if Things Were So Bad?!

Paraphrasing from one of Rabbi Yosef Shani’s books:

They didn’t see reality for what it was because they didn’t calculate losses; they focused on סיר הבשר, ממקנה בני ישראל, הבצלים, just like socialism when introduced slowly via פה רך propaganda.