Absolutely. Moreover, usually in these situations, the person wasn’t fired earlier because the team thought either they needed the person to get things done or

Absolutely. Moreover, usually in these situations, the person wasn’t fired earlier because the team thought either they needed the person to get things done or that disrupting things and hiring a replacement was more costly than keeping them on. Which indicates that even if this person was a poor performer, they were deemed valuable enough to keep on for quite some time. But now that it’s weeks from vest, suddenly it’s more valuable to let them go with nothing. As an employee or an investor, that’s a red flag to me about management style.