Makes sense, it's now or never probably. IGN is 100% a "content volume over content quality" type of company, the type that would replace a lot of the writing and editorial staff with AI as soon as it became a half-decent alternative. So might as well put pressure on them and exercise bargaining power to get some guarantees while you still have leverage and they still need you.
I hope they somehow got rid of the worst dregs of IGN before they made this union otherwise getting rid of them in the future is going to be tuff likely.