Realistic outcome: management tells the team they still need to achieve the same work with half the people through heroism. The remaining members notice they're

Realistic outcome: management tells the team they still need to achieve the same work with half the people through heroism. The remaining members notice they're expected to do twice the work under a lot more stress, in a workplace that suffers the typical post-layoff low morale, and they quit themselves. Feature B doesn't get done, feature A gets rolled out by a bunch of enthused fresh grads and is buggy and unstable.