[wongarsu]

Boeing's Space branch hasn't been doing well in general. Starliner delays lost them a big PR opportunity, their Delta IV rocket is getting increasingly fewer launches due to Falcon 9 being a serious competitor, and their moon lander proposal lost to much less well established competitors.

Their problems in commercial aviation are undoubtedly worse and the bigger reason for this layoff, but another major division struggling certainly didn't improve Boeing's situation.

[danans]

To me at least, the GP's comment read more like a shallow aggrandizement of SpaceX, whose successes and failures can stand on their own.

To connect the current layoffs at Boeing to the competition in the commercial space launch industry really seems to be motivated reasoning that focuses on irrelevant minutiae while the whale in the room is the impact of the pandemic.