[politician]

Yes, but it’s done on a project basis. Kill the project, move the good people to a new project, release the others. Later, resume/restart the project.

It’s really hard to be surgical about this because who wants to be the good engineer that has to pick up the barely functioning pieces of code left behind. Who wants to reward a solid engineer with a big refactor job on an already late/failing project? The optics aren’t great. I’m not saying it never works, but as a general rule, deferring the project is often a better option.