There were bits and pieces of familiar experience there that anyone working long time on a consumer software product had, but honestly I find it hard to sympath

There were bits and pieces of familiar experience there that anyone working long time on a consumer software product had, but honestly I find it hard to sympathize with this sort of "I wish them well, but all goes down now that I left" articles - especially naming and framing the company, product, people (indirectly in this case). There are hundreds of nuanced reasons why decisions were made like this within a huge company like Autodesk, things the author does not know about, and we as readers even less. There are very, very few straight up success stories in this industry, all achievements are "successful failures", processes where individual members see things fall apart or not improving compared to a personally important point in time from their PoV - and for themselves, this is the truth, even if the product/company - an abstract thing, for them - achieves a form of success.