₹7 lakh severance or a support role with the same developer title?

A developer with three years of experience and a ₹12 LPA package described two options after their team was affected by layoffs. One was roughly ₹7 lakh in severance, with 30 July as the last day. The other was a production-support role. The title would stay “developer”, but the work would become tickets, debugging and on-call support. The author worried about moving away from development while also facing an uncertain hiring market. The thread captures the decision before it was resolved; the source does not establish which option they eventually chose.