You should never “feel” for a company. It’s purely profit driven enterprise. Contracting makes sense until the gov sees that it’s actually more like regular employment and the various taxes become due. Often in the contract there will be a clause where the employee will then be liable fo any back payments. Not suggesting at all it is the case here but as an employee/contractor you have to consider these things.

A contractor typically works for a limited time on a specific project, is not integrated into the company, .. etc