[oscargrouch]

I tend to be more on your side of the fence and remain skeptical.

And something that may be used as evidence for my skepticism, is why instead of firing those people, where we know a lot of them are pretty good ones, they did not relocate them instead?

Even if we suppose, they decided to not invest in things that are not considered pragmatic, more to the core of Mozilla... Even if some of them were working coding in Rust for instance.. why dont they just shut down the projects that they considered 'fancy' and relocate those amazing engineers to work into core parts?

For me it smells like something is rot on the top level, and that in turn, will lead to more bad decisions in the coming years, unless something really radical happens (Microsoft did it, so theres hope).

Edit: one more evidence that the things are somehow rot, is that money going to pay for ads (and this is exactly the path taken by Yahoo)

[staticassertion]

I feel very similarly. This isn't just boneheaded project management, that would be simply killing great projects. Firing huge amounts of top tier talent is absolutely another story altogether.