> I’m just making assumptions here, but the higher ups almost definitely had many meetings with the management and product teams to decide what was and wasn’t n

> I’m just making assumptions here, but the higher ups almost definitely had many meetings with the management and product teams to decide what was and wasn’t needed and who was “expendable” (I hate HR terms/dehumanization, but this is almost definitely how it was presented) before making their list. From what I heard most managers were not consulted ahead of time.