Shouldn't he only be rewarded if something he did actually led to growth? Lots of companies grew like crazy in 2021, as mentioned in the parent article. Moreo

Shouldn't he only be rewarded if something he did actually led to growth? Lots of companies grew like crazy in 2021, as mentioned in the parent article. Moreover, if we're going to reward this individual when times are good purely for being in charge at the right time, then shouldn't it go both ways? Shouldn't we punish him when things are going bad, for example the tail end of 2022? I'm not a business person, it just seems like if I were an investor with Google [1] then that's how I'd view it. [1] I don't own any Google stock directly, but I suppose indirectly I own some via ETFs and an index fund. ETA: The reason I mention this is that I don't want to "punish him for firing lots of people", but because the people that were fired were the only ones punished for his bad leadership.