Elon has in the past talked about a growth-pruning cycle, so this is likely part of that - planned to some degree. I imagine, too, if there are "100x engineers

Elon has in the past talked about a growth-pruning cycle, so this is likely part of that - planned to some degree. I imagine, too, if there are "100x engineers" (or whatever their role is) there may be compromise otherwise that's not generally applied; I would however think that someone who's that production - unless it's somehow a mostly solo role - would necessarily need to be on-site to utilize whatever resources necessary.