This wasn’t really a board coup, it was an employee revolt. If you read the anonymous account from Reddit it’s clear that the issue is that the employees’ didn

This wasn’t really a board coup, it was an employee revolt. If you read the anonymous account from Reddit it’s clear that the issue is that the employees’ didn’t have agency in their work or the running of the company, working long hours with unreasonable deadlines while the CEO was effectively publicly taking credit for their work. The employees were just instruments of the CEO and some significant portion of them didn’t want to accept that.